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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 925
Title:: Notes on Common Law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Notes on Common Law, featuring law cases from the courts of 6 Henry VIII to 21 Elizabeth I (1578/1579).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1579
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta (ff. 7r-103v) written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient into England ancient quartered with France ancient (see Provenance). The text of Vetera Statuta is preceded by a quire including notes relating to taxes and feuda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1329-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r
Title:: Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: 'Argumenta brevium', incipit: 'Lex equi'. f. 1v: Register of taxable goods for the diocese of Salisbury. f. 2r: Register of tithes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. f. 2r: Register of taxes for the province of Canterbury excluding possessions of the Templars, Hospitaliers, and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926, ff 7r-103v
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta, including: ff. 7r-8v: List of contents. ff. 9r-12v: Carta de libertatibus Angliae, known as the Magna Carta, confirmed by Edward I. ff. 13r-14v: Carta de libertatibus foreste (Carta de Foresta). ff. 15r-17r: Statute of Merton. ff. 17v-23v: Statute of Marlborough. ff. 24v-3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-1340
Extent:: 97 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 927
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set. The first volume is Harley MS 926. f. 1v: List of contents. ff. 2r-127v: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III, written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-c 1364
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 928
Title:: A composite of two Books of Hours (both imperfect)
Scope & Content:: A composite of two Books of Hours (both imperfect), joined together in the late medieval or early modern period (before the edges were stained green and the fore-edge inscription was added, see Physical Characteristics). The manuscript also includes fragments of two 15th-century documents at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: One volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 929
Title:: Breviary (Temporale), Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Temporale portion of a Breviary, Use of Sarum. Decoration: Full bar borders in colours and gold with quatrefoils, acanthus leaves, small masks, and foliate decoration (ff. 75v, 83r, 90r, 94v, 164v). Large initials in colours and gold enclosing flowers and ivy (ff. 75v, 83r, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 930
Title:: Modus tenendi parliamentum (in English); Treaty of Troyes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the earliest surviving copies of the Modus tenendi parliamentum (Method of Holding Parliaments), a 14th-century work that outlines an idealised version of English parliamentary procedure. The volume also contains an imperfect copy of the Treaty of Troyes, an agree...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 932
Title:: A summary of the books of the Bible in Latin verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-79r: A summary of the books of the Bible in Latin verse, beginning: 'Ante diem facit Elohim ex nihilo caelum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 933
Title:: Liber Amicorum of Dr John Hasfurt
Scope & Content:: Friendship album of Dr John Hasfurt or Hasfurter, of Amberg, Franconia, and Blandford, Dorset. Most entries dated 1627-8, with several earlier and later entries. The album includes entries addressed to John Hausfurt (possibly a son), 1637, and to Charles Hasfurt, 1666. Includes: Heraldic pain...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1666
Extent:: 1 volume

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