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2921. Harley MS 5144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5144
Title:
Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254r: Year Book, containing the Term reports in Law French for the reigns of King Henry IV (years 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14) and King Henry V (years 9, 2 and 1). The manuscript contains a few later additions from the late 15th or early 16th century: f. 1*verso: Medical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2922. Harley MS 6291

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6291
Title:
John Gower, Vox Clamantis (beginning imperfectly), Cronica Tripertita, and shorter poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains works by the English poet John Gower (d. 1408). The version of Vox Clamantis found in this manuscript suggests it was completed c.1383 - c.1390 and the Cronica Tripertita after the death of Richard II (b. 1367, d. 1400), with Vox Clamantis having been revised to account ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2923. Harley MS 817

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 817
Title:
Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-236r: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-3v and 236v-239r: Annotations on the text and explanations of various terms, featuring a Middle English inscription that seems to have accompanied a map of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2924. Harley MS 877

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 877
Title:
Register of the parish church of St Mary, Woolnoth
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–21r: Register, containing five deeds, 1396–1498. ff. 21r–35v: Additions of wills relating to benefactions and other matters, mostly in English. Decoration: Most new sections open with two-line initials. The opening ‘S’ (f. 1r) is unusual, shaped as a figure 8 and decorated with red do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2925. Harley MS 968

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 968
Title:
Copy of the 'Arraignment of Sir Water Raleigh', 1603
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing 'The Arraignement of Sir Walter Raleigh knight, at Winchester on Thursday the 17th of November Anno Dni. 1603'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2926. Harley MS 1202

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1202
Title:
The history of the amours of Comtesse d'Olonne
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, containing an English translation of part of the book Histoire amoureuse des Gaules by Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, concerning Madame Catherine Henriette, Comtesse d'Olonne. This text does not match the English translation published in 1684, 'The History of the Am...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2927. Harley MS 2261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2261
Title:
An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2928. Harley MS 2327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2327
Title:
Manual of religious instruction for an English Catholic family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: 'The maner how to make our Confession which is accustomed to bee don everie eight daye'; with detailed instructions on how to examine one’s conscience according to deadly and capital sins. ff. 25v-36r: 'Of the manner of the preparing of anyone unto the receving the most h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1576
Extent:
1 volume

2929. Harley MS 3635

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3635
Title:
Jacques Cujas, Commentarii in libros LXXVIII Pauli ad Edictum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-339v: Jacques Cujas [Jacobus Cujacius] (b. 1522, d. 1590), Commentarii in libros LXXVIII Pauli ad Edictum [? 1584]; anonymous and untitled [and previously unidentified], probably because an original title-page was removed (see paper stub before f. 1). The treatise ends imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1584-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume

2930. Harley MS 4410

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4410
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie. The first rubric reads, 'Cy commence le livre du corps de policie le quel parle de vertu et de meurs: et est parti le dit livre en trois parties. La premiere partie sadrece aux princes, la seconde aux chevaliers et nobles,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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