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981. Harley MS 1117

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1117
Title:
Verses on the translation of Edward the Martyr; Bede's prose and verse Vitae sancti Cuthberti; excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; an office for St Cuthbert; a poem on Abbot Wigbeorht; offices of St Benedict and St Guthlac
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes material for the cult of St Cuthbert as well as poems and offices for other English churchmen and saints and for St Benedict. Bede's Lives of Cuthbert are glossed in Latin and Old English, in a hand which seems to be contemporary with the main text. The manuscript incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1000
Extent:

1 volume

982. Harley MS 1118

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1118
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-218v, 220v-289r: Registrum brevium. Including a list of contents (ff. 1r-10r); beginning on f. 13r: 'Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie Dux Aquitanie Ballivis suis Lincolniensis salutem precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis Ade de Cerleton. de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

983. Harley MS 1119

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1119
Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-13r: Ranulf de Glanvill (d. 1190), Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae, beginning: 'Regiam potestatem non solum armis contra rebelles et gentes sibi regnoque insurgentes'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 2v (lower margin): A writ for makin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

984. Harley MS 1120

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1120
Title:
English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Table of contents. ff. 5r-8r: Magna Carta. ff. 8r-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 10r-12r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 12r-14r: Dictum de Kenilworth. ff. 14r-19r: Statuta Marlebergie. ff. 19r-29r: S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

985. Harley MS 1121

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1121
Title:
Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume

986. Harley MS 1122-1124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1122-1124
Title:
'Practical Perspective', Volumes I-III
Scope & Content:
Three folio manuscript volumes, all in the same hand, containing a translation of the French work 'La Perspective Pratique', written by 'un Religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus', a religious person of the Society of Jesus, identified as Jean Dubreuil, published in Paris between 1647-1651. The fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
3 volumes

987. Harley MS 1125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1125
Title:
Translations of charters granted by English kings to the City of London
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: An introduction to the manuscript, dated 1581. ff. 1r-46v: A collection of English translations of ten charters granted by King John, Henry IV, Edward IV and Edward VI to the City of London. f. 47r: ‘A Table of certaine Charters graunted by former Kinges to the Citie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581
Extent:

1 volume

988. Harley MS 1126

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1126
Title:
George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘The Book of the Statutes of the Forests Parkes Chacys Warrenes’. ff. 1r-51v: George Treheyron, Treatise on forest laws, beginning ‘What thing doth make a fforest and who may make a fforest and how a fforrest is made what thinges be incydent to a fforest wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

989. Harley MS 1127

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1127
Title:
Table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36r: A table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 37v: Practice sentences and pen trials in English, including...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

990. Harley MS 1128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1128
Title:
'A discourse of the Privilidge and Practize of the Highe Courte of Parleament in England, collected out of the Comon Lawes of this Land, etc'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: 'A discourse of the Privilidge and Practize of the Highe Courte of Parleament in England, collected out of the Comon Lawes of this Land, etc'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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