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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 870
Title:: Britton (treatise on the laws of England)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Britton, a copy of the earliest summary of the laws of England in French, previously attributed to John le Breton, bishop of Hereford. ff. 164r-164v: Proposiciones digestorum;imperfect. The manuscript contains additions: f. 165r: An inscription with the date 1421: 'An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 871
Title:: English miscellany of tracts and letters from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents ff. 1r-6v: ‘The Last Will and Testament of Sir Walter Myldmay Knight Secundo die aprilis 1589’. ff. 7r-64r: The proceedings of the Early of Essex and other of Queen Elizabeth's ministers following the discovery of a plot to poison Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1593-1594. ff. 65r-70v: A d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 873
Title:: Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-94v: Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum; with musical notation; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript features formula for consecrations (e.g. 'Qualiter hij qui in Ordine Anachoritarum debeant se habere') and blessings (e.g 'Benedictio Scuti et Baculi ad Duellum facie...
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 898
Title:: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-246r: Summary of writs issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1589-1593; in Latin, but featuring some English on f. 136r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘De Annis 36. 37. 38. 39. 40 & 41 Elizab.’; added in the 17th or 18th cen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1589-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 904
Title:: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-396v: An English translation of Tommaso Fazello's De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae (History of Sicily).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 918
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains works and excerpts from various Protestant theologians. The inclusion of a work by William Twisse, published in 1632, provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript. Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Guillelmus Estius [Willem Hessels van Est], Domini Guillelmi Estii in quatuor ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 920
Title:: A collection of Catholic prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Commendatio Matutina, qua post nos omnes Christi fideles Deo commendamus. ff. 1v-2r: Ad B. Virginem. f. 2r: Ad omnes Sanctos, et ad S. Angelum Custodem. ff. 2r-3v: Oratio S. Augustini a Spiritu Sancto sibi revelata. f. 4r: Oratio ad Jesum. ff. 4v-5r: Oratio B. Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 923
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Notes on Common Law, featuring extracts from the Plea Rolls; additions with the date 1598 on f. 29r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 924
Title:: Humfrey Rant, Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71r: Humfrey Rant, Notes on Common Law, containing commentaries of 'Mr Plowden' in Law French; Latin proverbs; and abridgement of Anthony FitzHerbert's Natura Brevium in Law French (the copy is dated to 1616); mote cases dated to 1616-1618, law cases about mines, and references...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 925
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Notes on Common Law, featuring law cases from the courts of 6 Henry VIII to 21 Elizabeth I (1578/1579).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1579
Extent:: 1 volume

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