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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4912
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858
Title:: Vetera Statuta, Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the statutes of the English kings from Magna Cartato the end of the reign of Edward II, known as the Vetera Statuta (ff. 1r-73v), followed by two copies of the Registrum Brevium (ff. 74r-119v and 120r-191v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1512
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, volume one of two, the second volume is Harley MS 1513. This volume includes the Temporale. ff. 1-2 are parchment flyleaves including late 15th or early 16th-century additions by Hugh Fletcher (according to Wanley, see Catalogue 1808). f. 1v: A poem in English, with a d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1513
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, second volume, the first volume is Harley MS 1512. This volume includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-40r: Psalter with Litanies. ff. 40r-41v: Office of the Dead added by a late 15th-century hand. ff. 42r-184r: Sanctorale. ff. 184r-199v: Common of the Saints. ff. 199...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2476
Title:: T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes eight commedies by T. Maccius Plautus, with marginal glosses: ff. 1r-21r: Amphitryon, rubric: 'Plauti poete comici clasissimi Prima comedia Amphytrio incipit Argumentum', incipit: 'In faciem vorsus Amphitrionis.' ff. 21r-36v: Ansinaria, rubric: 'Plauti comici comedia se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2588
Title:: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires
Scope & Content:: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires, incipit (prologue): 'Nec fonte labra prolui cabalino'; incipit (text): 'O curas hominum.' Decoration: 2 white vine ('bianchi girari') initials in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue and the Satira prima (f. 1r). Smaller coloured initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2820
Title:: Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Gospels, known as the 'Cologne Gospels'. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-8v: Canon tables. ff. 9r-10v: Jerome's epistle to pope Damasus, incipit: 'Novum opus cogis me facere ex veteri'. ff. 10v-236v: The four Gospels with prologues: Matthew, prologue (ff. 10v-11v), Gospel (ff. 12r-75v); Mark,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3056
Title:: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones, 3 first books and chapter 14 of book 4, incipit: 'Magno [et] excellenti ingenio.' Decoration: Spaces left for initials and rubrics.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3302
Title:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, incipit: 'Carmina qui quondam studio florente.' Decoration: 5 historiated initials with a two- or three-sided foliate border including acanthus leaves and besants depicting men (Boethius?) and women (personifications of Philosophy?), at the beginning of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1470-c 1480
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3688
Title:: Cartulary of Missenden Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*v–2*r: Added sheet with a table of estimated conversions of weights and measures, in English (early 15th century). ff. 1r–15v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 16r–186v: General cartulary, compiled by Robert de Welwes and completed 20 Feb 1330 or 1331; arranged in sections, mainly top...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1330-1331
Extent:: Parchment codex

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