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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2222
Title:: Statutes and regulations of the Admiralty
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: 'Rules and orders to bee observed by all vice-admiralls aswell for the preservation of the Jurisdiction of the admiralty as for the better regulating the affaires and perquisites of the same for his Majesties profit and advantage'. ff. 3r-3v: 'Statuta contenta in Commissi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2858
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, with added names of the months in Middle Dutch or Low German. ff. 15r-18v: Hours of the Cross. ff. 20r-25v: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 26r-31r: Prayer of the Venerable Bede, beginning 'Domine Ihesu Christe qui septem verba'. ff. 31r-33v: Prayer of Pop...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle, German, Low, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2862
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-62v: The Hours of the Virgin; imperfect. ff. 64r-80r: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 80r-90v: The Litany containing English saints, followed by various prayers to God. ff. 91r-93v: The Mass of St Gregory; imperfect. The introductory rubric is repeated ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2867
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: a prayer inscribed in pencil on a piece of paper pasted onto a front flyleaf, beginning 'Curage desperas peccatis territus ullis', perhaps 17th century. ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French, with added Arabic numerals, perhaps 17th century. ff. 14r-20v: Gospel readings. ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1420s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3300
Title:: Formulary from the diocese of Exeter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Two Latin indentures from Devon, one relating to the vicar of Cornwood, and the other to Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. f. 2r: A Middle English poem on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, 'Love come outte fro heven'; ending with the attribution: 'Quod Breche' [...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3393
Title:: Statutes of the Republic of Venice
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-148v: Statutes of the Republic of Venice in Latin and Italian, continued to c. 1581; with an index (ff. 140r-148v). Large initials with black cadels throughout. The title of the table of contents ('Repertorium') inscribed in gold on f. 140r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3626
Title:: Year Books for 3-10 Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-164v: Year Books for 3-10 Edward III (1329/30-1336/7); written in Law French, with headings in Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1340
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3652
Title:: English statutes; Registrum Cancellarie; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains collections of English statutes and laws until the reign of Richard II, written in Latin and French, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1r-29r), and a chancery register (ff. 30r-54r). Contents: ff. 1r-12v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4972
Title:: Apocalypse, Prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Apocalypse in French prose, with prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée (a folio is missing between ff. 31 and 32); ff. 43r-47v: Prophétie de la sibylle Tiburtine (Prophecy of the Tenth or Tiburtine Sibyl); the last folio of this text is now in Bodley MS Douce 308. The text ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1275-1325
Extent:: A parchment codex, 47 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5021
Title:: Bible (from Genesis to 2 Maccabees)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-141v: Bible (from Genesis to 2 Maccabees). Decoration: 1 historiated initial in gold and colours, with foliate motifs and grotesques (f. 2r). Display script in gold on pink and blue, for letters following the historiated initial (f. 2r), or in blue with some red, at the begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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