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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 81r-85r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Rules
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Rules (Les Reules Seynt Roberd), incipit: 'Ici cumencent les reules qui Ro/bert Grosteste'. Originally written for Alice de Lacy, countess of Lincoln, widow of Thomas of Lancaster. For the text see S. H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 191v-198v
Title:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice; incipit: 'Ici comence purgatorie seint patric / [P]ur la bone gent conforter'. Written by the Ludlow scribe in collaboration with another scribe who copied lines 373-550: see C. Revard 1970. For the text and the manuscript see Vising 1916.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1314-1329
Extent:: 8 folios followed by 1 blank folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 16v-28v
Title:: Cookery recipes
Scope & Content:: Cookery book (70 recipes); imperfect at the end. Title 'A tarte of fysche', incipit: 'Tak fyggys and reysingis and cynig', breaking off at 'ton wyt þe to3ere and onyouns mynced in þe'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 270, ff 1r-122v
Title:: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket
Scope & Content:: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket. Guernes, also known as Garnier, completed the text in 1174. Decoration: 1 large gold initial with foliate infill in blue, green and pink set against a rectangular pink ground (f. 1r). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or blue...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 122 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 50r-50v
Title:: A note on the solar year
Scope & Content:: A note on the solar year, incipit: 'Nota quod annus solaris', with a diagram in ink (f. 50v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 49r-51r
Title:: De Concordia solaris cursus et lunaris, De Concordia maris et lunae, and De praesagiis tempestatum presagia solis xxvii
Scope & Content:: Three short texts: De Concordia solaris cursus et lunaris, De Concordia maris et lunae, and De praesagiis tempestatum presagia solis xxvii.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff. 12r-12v
Title:: Tables of contents of Thomas Fayreford's medical commonplace book and surgical commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Two sets of tables of contents: The table of contents of Thomas Fayreford's medical commonplace book (ff. 72v-124v) with folio references. Fayreford's autograph. Title 'Tabula super practicam scrip/tam post 'Circa instans' in / hoc volumine per Thomam Ffay/reford collectam et plurimum / expert...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 114r-115r
Title:: Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the invention of St Stephen, with grammatical notes.
Scope & Content:: Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the invention of the body of St Stephen (Inventio corporis Sancti Stephani ad vesperam), with grammatical notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Cnut (r. 1016-1035). Decoration: Large initials (2-3 lines; ff. 5, 7v, 13) in red, paragraph initials touched in red, rubric (f. 5r) in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v
Title:: Prophecies of Esdras
Scope & Content:: Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

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