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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5145
Title:: Year Books for the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-186r: The Year Books of 5 Henry V; 2 Henry IV; 3 Henry IV; 1 Henry V; 3 Henry IV; 9 Henry V; 11 Henry IV; 14 Henry IV; 19 Henry VI; written in Law French with Latin headings by various hands. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r (parchment pastedown): A (?) table ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5146
Title:: Tenurae; Natura Brevium; Novelli Tenores
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a number of collections of legal cases written in Latin and French. It also contains a previously unidentified stanza from the Middle English poem The Court of Sapience, usually attributed to John Lydgate, but here assigned to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem has only been ide...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1483
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5152
Title:: The Whimsies of Señor Hidalgo, or the Masculine Bride. An anonymous play.
Scope & Content:: Fair copy manuscript of a play in both prose and rhyme. Inscribed on folio 1 is the title 'A New Comedy Calld The Whimseyes of Señor Hidalgo or the Masculine Bride'. The author is unknown. This manuscript was previously bound with Harley MS 7367 and Harley MS 7368.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5153
Title:: Book of law cases
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Alphabetical list of legal terms in English. ff. 2r-168r: Book illustrating different types of law cases, written in Law French and organised alphabetically: beginning with 'Accomptt' and ending with 'Visne'. f. 170v: Lecture on law by Sir Robert Brooke [Broke] (d. 1558), ju...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5154
Title:: Book of law cases
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Alphabetical index of subjects. ff. 3r-273r: Book of law cases, written in Law French and organised alphabetically: beginning with 'Accompt' and ending with 'voucher'. ff. 274r-284v: Additions to the book of law cases, with legal notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5155
Title:: Law cases from the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI ('William Fletewood's Commonplace Book')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Law cases from the 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 9th and 14th years of the reign of King Henry VI. With contemporary additions on law cases from the reign of 1 Henry V on ff. 52r-54r, 226r-231v; and 'Assis de Annno 8 Henry IV dell duk Deverwyck [York]' on ff. 232r-232v; written in Law F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd or 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5156
Title:: Collection of law cases and notes on law lectures
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Law cases in French and English; with on f. 12v the inscription: 'The Lawe off the Lord Resete in oure hartes Amen'. f. 14r: 'Damasus papa in epistola ad Jeronimum i'. ff. 15r-23v: Notes on lectures on Law by Reginald Corbell, written in French, dated to 1552, headed: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1552-c 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5158
Title:: Book of law cases for the reigns of Henry IV to Henry VI
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts that were produced separately. Together the manuscript contains reports on law cases from the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI. Contents: Part 1: ff. 3r-17r: Law cases from the time of Henry V and Henry VI [with additions on ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1560
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5159
Title:: Year books of King Henry VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-279v: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, recording pleas held during the 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 35th years of his reign (1424-1426, 1431-1432, 1435-1437, 1440-1442, 1456-1457). Written in Law French by ‘T. Mull[e]’. The manuscript contains a few later...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1424-1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5165
Title:: Index of Letters Patent from the reigns of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-3v: A reference table of counties in England and Wales in the Letters Patent, with page references provided for Essex only. ff. 4r-10r: 'Patents of Concealements in Queene Elizabeths tyme' [up to 31 Elizabeth I], followed by similar documents from the reign of Henry VIII. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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