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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4843
Title:: Lives of St Cuthbert and other texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a collection of lives of St Cuthbert, lives of other saints and historical texts relating to the Cathedral Priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: f. 1r: Life of St Nicasius, incipit 'Sancti Nicasius quirinus et scroniculus (sic) socii' (added). f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1528
Extent:: Paper and parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4844/1
Title:: Sir Thomas Littleton, Littleton's Tenures
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The second volume is Harley MS 4844/2. Contents: ff. 3r-112r: Sir Thomas Littleton [Lyttleton], Littleton's Tenures, divided in three books written in French (ff. 3r-50v), and begi...
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 4844/2
Title:: Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The first volume is Harley MS 4844/1. Contents: ff. 113r-260v: Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI, written in French. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 2...
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 4846
Title:: Collection of legal precedents from the time of Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-133v: Collection of legal precedents from the time of Elizabeth I. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A note on the manuscript: 'Black Parchment […] Book'; added in the 16th or 17th century. ff. 2r-4r: Table of contents; added in the 16th century on smaller ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1558-c 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4852
Title:: Cicero, Speeches
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Cicero, Divinatio in Caecilium (Divinatio against Caecilius). ff. 11v-110v: Cicero, In Verrem (Against Verres) ff. 111r-131r: Cicero, Pro Milone (For Milo). ff. 131v-144v: Cicero, De imperio Cn. Pompei (On the Command of Gnaeus Pompey). ff. 144v-149v: Cicero, Pro Marce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4853
Title:: Robert III de La Marck, Histoire des choses mémorables advenues du règne de Louis XII et de François I, depuis 1499 jusqu'en l'an 1521
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-386v: Robert III de la Marck (b. 1491, d. 1537), Seigneur of Fleuranges, Marshal of France, Histoire des choses mémorables advenues du règne de Louis XII et de François I, depuis 1499 jusqu'en l'an 1521, entitled: 'Memories Du Mareschal de Fleurange - Histoire des choses memora...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4854
Title:: Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine
Scope & Content:: Contents: Le Roman de Ponthus (or Pontus) et Sidoine, a prose romance from western France, adapted from the French version of the Anglo-Norman romance, King Horn. The text, beginning, 'Conter veue une noble istoire ou lon pourra apprandre' consists of 47 chapters. It tells the story of Pontus,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4855
Title:: Nova statuta, 1 Edward III to 6 Henry IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-171v: Nova statuta, from 1 Edward III (ff. 30-115) to 17 Richard II (ff. 116-171v); beginnning with a list of chapters (ff. 1-29); written in Law French with Latin headings. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto (paper pastedown): Note for the binder on a p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1393-c 1404
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4856
Title:: Virgil, Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid
Scope & Content:: Contents: pp. 1-30: Virgil, Bucolics. pp. 31-109: Virgil, Georgics. pp. 110-466: Virgil, Aeneid. pp. 466-469: Pseudo-Ovid, summary of the Aeneid. Horizontal and vertical catchwords. From the same workshop, and possibly by the same scribe, as Harley 5300, a copy of Juvenal. Decoration: 14...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4857
Title:: Petrarch, Rime and Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-6*r: Table of first lines. f. 1*: Added pasted on inscribed piece of parchment. ff. 1r-142v: Petrarch, Rime. ff. 143r-179v: Petrarch, Trionfi. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border inhabited by animals and putti, with 1 large initial in colours and gold and a coat of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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