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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1022
Title:: A miscellany of religious prose and verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A tract on the nativity of John the Baptist (Latin). f. 1v: A short account of a ‘John the Hermit’ (Latin). f. 1v: The nun Eulalia whom the Virgin Mary asked to say the Ave more slowly (Latin). f. 1v: A priest who saw a woman clad in demons, translated from Caesarius of He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1425
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1023
Title:: Gospel-book
Scope & Content:: This is a 12th-century illuminated Gospel-book with glosses in Irish and Latin, and added texts in Latin. Its close similarities in text, script and decoration with the Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1802) and the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) both made in Armagh, su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1024
Title:: Nova Statuta for Edward III and Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: The Capitula of the Statutes made during the reign of King Edward III [written in Law French]. ff. 10r-15v: The Capitula of the Statutes made during the first 17 years of King Richard II [written in Law French]. ff. 16r-128r: The Statutes made during the reign of King ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1025
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff. 7-146v, Psalms, Litany and prayers. Decoration: Large initials in gold with foliate decoration in colours and a partial border at the beginning of Psalms 1, 26, 38, 52, 68, 80, 97, 109 (ff. 7r, 26v, 39v, 51r, 62v, 77r, 90r, 104v). Large initial in red and bl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1026
Title:: Memorandum book of Justinian Pagitt
Scope & Content:: Private notebook of Justinian Pagitt (1611/2-1688) of Hadley, Middlesex, lawyer and Recorder of the Kings Bench. Contents include: ff. 1-3: Table of contents. ff. 4-5: Notes from Dr Henshaw’s sermons, 1632-3. f. 6: Notes on his health. f. 7: Notes on dancing. Headed: ‘De Arte soltandi,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1633
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1027
Title:: Statutes of Exeter Cathedral
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-76r: Statutes of Exeter Cathedral, beginning with a statute by Bishop William [? Warelwast, bishop 1107-1137] and ending with those issued in 1387 by Thomas Brantingham, bishop 1370-1394. For a detailed list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1028
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: 'Magna Carta'. ff. 4r-5v: 'Carta de Foresta'. ff. 5v-7v: 'Provisiones de Mertone'. ff. 7v-12r: 'Statuta de Marleberge'. ff. 12r-21v: 'Statuta Westmonasterii primi'. ff. 21v-24r: 'Statuta Gloucestrie'. ff. 24r-24v: 'Explanaciones eorundem'. ff. 24v-40v: 'Statuta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1029
Title:: Mass lectionary from the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Mass lectionary with readings from the Gospels and Epistles in Middle English. These have been taken from the so-called ‘Early Version’ of the Wycliffite Bible. Contents: f. [1a]verso: A lection from Mark 8. ff. 2r-153v: Temporale, beginning ‘Here byginnyþ the gos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1490s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1030
Title:: A historical and religious miscellany
Scope & Content:: This miscellany consists of four different parts. Part one (ff. 1-6) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part two (ff. 7-72) is in English and was written in the 17th century. Part three (ff. 73-85) is in French and was written in 1598. Part four (ff. 86-92) is in English and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1598-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1031
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-186r: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript contains several additions: Theological notes added throughout the manuscript. f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'Tractatus moralis de virtutibus'; added in the (?) 17th centu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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