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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1012
Title:: Observations of former Parliaments and dockets of patents
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume. Contents: ff. 1-7v: Observations of former Parliaments, concerning the forms and methods of the proceedings of said Parliaments. ff. 8-69v: Dockets of patents granted, 10-16 Charles I, [1634-1640]. The dockets of patents from 16 Charles I [1639-1640] is incomplete.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1013
Title:: Registrum brevium; English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-124r: Registrum Brevium from the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377). ff. 126r-129v: Magna Carta. ff. 129v-131v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 131v-132r: Sentencia lata super Cartas. ff. 132v-134v: Provisiones de Mertone. ff. 134v-139r: Statuta de Merleberge. ff. 139r-148v: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1014
Title:: Tractatus fabularum extractarum ex libris metamorfoseon ovidij expositarum morliter et allegorice
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: A table of contents. ff. 12r-57r: Tractatus fabularum extractarum ex libris metamorfoseon ovidij expositarum moraliter et allegorice.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1015
Title:: Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Collection of fifty sermons; itemised in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, pp. 509-10. Decoration: Initials in red or green, occasionally with penwork in the other colour.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1016
Title:: Collection of theological texts, including Richard of Arnsberg, Expositio Missae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63v: Compilation of theological excerpts, beginning: 'Otium stultitiam labor scientiam generat'. ff. 64r-68v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De institutione novitiorum, chapter 12, beginning: 'Gestus est modus et figuratio membrorum corporis ad omnem agendi et habendi modum'. f. 69r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1017
Title:: Constitutions of the Archdiocese of Reims
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Synodal Constitutions of Guillaume de Trie, Archbishop of Reims (r. 1324-1334); includes other Synodal Constitutions from 1303, 1317, 1326 and 1329. ff. 26r-30v: Constitutions of the Provincial Council of Jean de Vienne, Archbishop of Reims (r. 1335–1351), 26 July 1344. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1018
Title:: Transcripts of medieval historical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71r: A transcript of Alfred of Beverley's Historia de gestis regalibus regum. ff. 72r-73r: A transcript of the prologue of Robert of Torigni's Chronica. ff. 73r-77v: A transcript of Henry of Huntingdon's Epistola ad Walterum de contemptu mundi.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1019
Title:: John Donne, Conclave Ignatii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Donne, Conclave Ignatii, English translation, here entitled ‘Jgnatus his Closet – Or – His late installinge in the highe Courte of Parlament somoned by generall consent of the chirche governinge furyes of the deepest helle – Wherein diverse thinges are handled Satyric...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1020
Title:: Testimonia Sacræ Scripturæ quibus Catechesis constructa est
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing bible verses as part of a [Jesuit?] Catechesis, by Alardus Alardi, 1614.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1614
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1021
Title:: A collection of excerpts from scriptural commentaries
Scope & Content:: A florilegium of scriptural commentaries by Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome and others. The individual excerpts are almost all without acknowledgement of the source, and they are only sometimes grouped into larger categories. It is imperfect at the end. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Excerpts from co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1175-1225
Extent:: 1 volume

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