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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 229-235
Title:: De indulgencia apud assisium; Coronatio Edwardi secundi; La maniere comment le roy sera coronee
Scope & Content:: These folios contain some material related to royal coronations that was copied in the 14th century, including: ff. 229r-230v: De indulgencia apud assisium; ff. 231r-v: Coronatio Edwardi secundi; ff. 232r-235v: La maniere comment le roy sera coronee.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2, ff 236-291
Title:: Life of St Edward the Confessor; Life of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury; Life of Edmund Rich, archbishop of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: These folios include three saints' lives, copied in the 14th century: ff. 236r-254v: Aelred of Rievaulx's vita of St Edward the Confessor (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2423); ff. 254v-280r: A vita of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury by Edward Grim (Bibliotheca Hagiographica La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C XII/2

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, f 85v
Title:: Charms against wounds and for bloodletting
Scope & Content:: Charm against wounds, incipit: 'Charme pur feistre felun et / playe. Pervez une piece de / plum et la fetes batre', explicit: 'tuz jurs le be/netquiez'. Printed in T. Hunt, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-century England. Introduction and Texts (Cambridge, 1990), p. 88. Charm for bloodletting, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

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 70r-85v, ff 85-85v
Title:: Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs)
Scope & Content:: Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs), incipit: 'Ky veut verrei amur aver il deit'. For the text see T. Hunt, 'Anglo-Norman Rules of Friendship', French Studies Bulletin, 30 (1989), 9-11.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v
Title:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever
Scope & Content:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 103r-110r
Title:: Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers
Scope & Content:: Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers; incipit: 'Ceo sunt les auctoritees. Seint / Gregoyre le pape'. For the text see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 672, 772, 781, 891, 951,
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 110v-112v
Title:: Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:: Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams, followed by a prose text relating to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; incipit: 'En le nun Jhesu crist. Ci comence une me/ditacion'. For the texts see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 635, 861. Decoration: Initials in red. Two diagrams in red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 113r-190v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés
Scope & Content:: William of Waddington, Manuel des pechiez; Rubric 'Le prologe del manuel des pechiez', incipit: 'La vertue del seint espirit'. Last section (ff. 181v-191v) copied by the Ludlow scribe and compiler, including (ff. 190v-191r) a table of venial and mortal sins. An edition of the text from the prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 77 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

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