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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, ff 24v-28r
Title:: Simon Bredon, Nomina instrumentorum astrolabii, sive Astrolabii declaratio et usus
Scope & Content:: Simon Bredon, Nomina instrumentorum astrolabii, sive Astrolabii declaratio et usus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 5 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, ff 30r-33v
Title:: Descriptio machine mundane cum situ et figuris corporum eam constituentium ac eorundem motus
Scope & Content:: Rubric: 'Descriptio machine mundane cum situ et figuris corporum eam constituentium ac eorundem motus'; incipit: 'Intentio mea in hoc tractatu est describere figuram machine mundane.' Decoration: Initials in red at the beginning of paragraphs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, ff 34r-36r
Title:: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum
Scope & Content:: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum; 16th century title: Metrica precipuarum gemmarum descriptio. Decoration: Space with guide letters left for initials at the beginning of each entry .
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 322
Title:: Vitae sanctorum
Scope & Content:: Vitae sanctorum (Lives of Saints), including a version of the Life of St Godric based on that of Reginald of Durham (d. c. 1190), with the song of St Godric interpolated (f. 74v). M. R. James attributed the manuscript to Christ Church, Canterbury (Ancient Libraries (1906), p. 526), which Neil Ke...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 323
Title:: Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis; Pope Clement V, Constitutiones Clementinae; Raymund de Peñafort, Decretals of Gregory IX (fragment); Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie; laws from the reign of Henry III; Registrum Brevium (fragment); Pope Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Bernardus Parmensis, Casus longi quinque libros decretalium
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of eight parts that were written separately at different moments in time and joined together at a later stage, before or after reaching the library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650). Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-12v: Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 324
Title:: John le Breton, The Treatise on the Laws of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*v-204r: John le Breton, The Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton, and the Proposiciones digestorum) with a table of contents (ff. 2*v-4*v). Decoration: Numerous drawings in the lower margin including animals, hybrid creatures and hunting scenes (ff. 4*v-31r),...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1305
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 325
Title:: Alexander Nequam, Sermones; Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi; William de Montibus, Numerale, Speculum penitentis; St Jerome, De Hebraicis Nominibus; Priscian, About Greek prepositions; Hildebert, Poem on the Mass
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v, 34r-37v, 59v-64r: Alexander Nequam, Sermones. ff. 9r-29r: Lotharius (Pope Innocent III), De contemptu mundi. f. 29r: an unidentified letter. ff. 29v-33v: Hildebert, Poem on the Mass. ff. 39r-82r: William de Montibus, Numerale. ff. 82v-86v: Sermones. ff. 87r-94r: Will...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 326
Title:: Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV; Romance of the Three Kings' Sons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV (Edward IV's descent from Rollo). For an edition of the text, see Radulescu 2003. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Here be gynnyt the petegreu of þe kyng þt now ys'. Incipit (f. 1r): 'This breff tretis is compyled for to bryng The peple oute of doute þt h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1485
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 327
Title:: The Pauline Epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic Epistles, and Apocalypse in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: The Pauline Epistles, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 64v-98v: The Acts of the Apostles, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 98v-112r: The Catholic Epistles, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 112r-128v: Apocalypse, in the later Wycliffite version. The manuscri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 328
Title:: William of Wykeham, Iniunctiones
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two series of injunctions (Iniunctiones) by William of Wykeham (b. c. 1320, d. 1404), bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. The injunctions were issued in 1387 as a result of William's visitation of Winchester Cathedral Priory. Contents: ff. 1r-30r: William o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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