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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1245
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1249
Title:: A transcript of the cartulary of St David's Cathedral
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a transcript of the St David's cartulary in Harley MS 6280. Contents: ff. 1*r: letter from the office of the Bishop of St David's addressed to Humphrey Wanley concerning the loan of the manuscript to the former, dated 11 June 1714. ff. 2*r: letter of Richard Smalbroke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1258
Title:: Sermons for the Temporale and Sanctorale
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Theological excerpts. ff. 3r-16r: De peccato in genere. ff. 17r-34r: De penitentia. ff. 35r-43v: De decem preceptis. ff. 44r-276v: Sermons for feasts of the Temporale and Sanctorale; including Thomas Becket and Edmund the Martyr. ff. 277r-298v: De communion sanctor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1259
Title:: Collection of English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Carta Foresta. ff. 5r-6r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 6r-8r: Consuetudines et assisae de Foresta. ff. 8r-9v: Summa de antiquo Dominico Corone. ff. 9v-10v: Statutum Religiosorum. ff. 10v-15r: Statutum Wyntonie. ff. 15r-19v: S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1261
Title:: Royal statutes from 1 Edward III to 7 Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-271r: Royal statutes (Nova Statuta), from 1 Edward III (ff. 13-217) to 7 Richard II (ff. 217-271), containing a table of contents (ff. 1r-12r) and the statutes (ff. 13r-171r); written in Law French, but with Latin rubrics. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [276]re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1383
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1275
Title:: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-50v: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum; Ending with the verses: 'Ludus scacoru[m] datur hic correctio Morum. Non tantum morum regimen s[ed] officiorum. Miles regalis et corrigitur popularis. Si ludi lusum morum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1280
Title:: A Bible including Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-427v: A Bible including Interpretatio Nominorum Hebreorum. Decoration: 1 historiated initial with bird and resting on an ox, Luke’s symbol, at the beginning of Luke’s Gospel (f. 337v). Large initial ‘I’(n principio) with foliate scrolls and dragons runs the whole height of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd or 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1281
Title:: Collections relating to the practice of Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-624v: Collections relating to the practice of Common Law. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1v: Notes in French and Latin, beginning: ‘Virtutem posuere dei sudore parandam’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1287
Title:: A Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-416v: A Bible. Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of the prologue to Genesis and at the beginning of Genesis (ff. 2r, 4v). Plain initials in blue or red, many initials not added. Running titles.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1294
Title:: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum; sermons by Peter Comestor and Hildebert of Lavardin; Allegories of the Old and New Testament; (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae. ff. 39r-40v: Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo. ff. 41r-87r: Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum (abridged selections) ff. 88r-89v: Part of Galand of Reigny [Galandus Regniacensis], De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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