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131. Harley MS 76, ff 1-137v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 76, ff 1-137v
Title:
Gospels (the 'Bury Gospels')
Scope & Content:
Gospels (the 'Bury Gospels'). Contents: 1. Prefatory material including: Jerome, Epistle to Damasus, incipit: '[I]n novum opus' (ff. 1v-2v); Jerome, Prologue, incipit: 'Plures fuisse' (ff. 2v-3v); Eusebius, Epistle to Carpianus (ff. 3v-4r); and Hieronimus, Epistle to Damasus, incipit: 'Scientum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
137 folios.

132. Harley MS 76, ff 137v-141v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 76, ff 137v-141v
Title:
Charters relating to the abbey of Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:
1. Text concerning a dispute between Gundulph, bishop of Rochester, and Picot, sheriff of Grandebruge, incipit: 'Tempore Willelmi regis anglorum magni patris Willelmi regis eiusdem genus fuit quedam contentio inter Gundulphum refensem episcopum' (f. 137v); 2. Charter of Cnut, incipit: 'In nomin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:
5 folios.

133. Harley MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 77
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-222v: Registrum brevium.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

134. Harley MS 78

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 78
Title:
Collection of English texts, including letters, historical and heraldic works, and poems by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of various 15th- and 16th-century English texts, predominantly letters, historical and heraldic texts and poems. Contents: f. 1r-v: Opinions of Lords on the question 'how goodd myght be had for the settinge forthe of the armes in to Normandye and Guye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and French
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

135. Harley MS 79

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79
Title:
Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1r-26r and 27r-46v) and includes: 1. Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford, 1302 (ff. 1r-1v); 2. Statuta Angliae (ff. 2r-26r); 3. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 27r-46r). 4. Medical recipes (f. 46v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1499
Extent:

1 volume

136. Harley MS 79, f 46v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79, f 46v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

137. Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford of 1302: inscribed 'Tempore fr[at]ris Joh[an]is de Weybur[n] abb[at]is Osen[sis] a festo s[anc]ti Egidii Anno domini m ccc ii' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1302-c 1320
Extent:
1 folio.

138. Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r
Title:
Statuta Angliae (Vetera Statuta)
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises the texts of Magna Carta and of the Charter of Forest as reissued by Henry III in 1225, followed by a number of Statutes of England; imperfect, incipit (f. 2r): 'Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie Dux Normannie et Aquitanie / Archiepiscopis … salutem. Sciatis qu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
24 folios.

139. Harley MS 79, ff 27r-46r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79, ff 27r-46r
Title:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus, imperfect. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals and metals, and was probably composed in various stages between 1248 and 1262. According to Wyckoff (Albertus Magnus, B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
20 folios.

140. Harley MS 80

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 80
Title:
Collection of texts on astronomy, optics, astrology and stones from a Merton College manuscript
Scope & Content:
This composite volume is formed by five parts (1-5), of which items 2-4 are identifiable as independent booklets or libelli. 1. ff. 1r-57r: the first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises texts by Roger Bacon, (De Scientia Perspectiva, ff. 1r-33v) and Richard of Wallingford, (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-1499
Extent:

1 volume

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