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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1671
Title:: The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1678
Title:: Registrum brevium for the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-334v: Registrum brevium for the reign of Richard II (r. 1377-1399). The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1r-11v: a table of contents; added in the 15th century. ff. 336v and 337v: added entries, one in French; written in the 15th century. Decoration: Large i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1696
Title:: A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22v: A collection of law cases for the period 1562-1585. [f. 23 is blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1562-1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1697
Title:: A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench, 1593-1597
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-143r: A collection of law cases at Queen's Bench for the period 1593-1597.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1593-1597
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1699
Title:: Notes collect in tempes dell Raigne le Roigne Elizabethe
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-10v: An alphabetical index with the date 1585 inscribed at the end: ‘Finis. 16. die Junij. anno. domini. 1585. anno. regni. Dominae Reginae Elizab. 27’. ff. 11r-168v: A large Law Commonplace Book in Law French, entitled: ‘Notes collect in tempes dell Raigne le Roigne Elizabet...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1700
Title:: The Twelve Minor Prophets with marginal and interlinear glosses.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament with prologues and commentary in interlinear and marginal glosses. Contents: f. 1* recto: A prologue to the Book of Amos, Chapter 2 (‘Prefatio Jeronimi in Amos propheta super secundum librum’). ff. 1r-1v: A prologue to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1701
Title:: Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne; Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord and the Hours of the Passion; King Robert of Sicily; a mass against the plague
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Robert Mannyng [Robert Mannyng of Brunne] (d. in or after 1338), Handlyng Synne, a Middle English translation of the Anglo-Norman French Manuel des pechiez, attributed to William of Waddington (late 13th century) [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 778], enti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1703
Title:: William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1704
Title:: Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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