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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1001
Title:: Ordinal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-162r: Ordinal, Use of Sarum; with musical notation (neumes in black ink on staffs with four lines in red ink) on ff. 18v, 38r, 38v, 126r, 153v-155r; other later (15th-century) hands have added annotations throughout and text to replace erased text (ff. 53r-54v, 70v, 153v); its ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1003
Title:: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-193v: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis (Books I-VII), beginning: 'Veritatis theologicae sublimitas cum sit superni splendoris radius'. Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Coloured initials in red or blue. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1008
Title:: A miscellany of theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany of seven parts (ff. 1-8; 9-[26a]; 27-44; 45-56; 57-80; 81; 82-130) containing theological, moral, devotional, hagiographic, prophetic and mantic texts. The different parts probably were all produced in England and France in the second half of the 15th ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th 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 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 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 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

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 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

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