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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
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés and Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit of the manuscript includes: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés (ff. 113r-190v); Purgatoire de S. Patrice (ff. 191v-197v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 85 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 199r-203r
Title:: Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour
Scope & Content:: The fifth unit of the manuscript includes Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour; Rubric 'Ici comence la pleynte de / amour', incipit: 'Amur Amur ou estes veus'. For the text see M. Vising, La Plainte d'Amour, poèm anglo-normand (Göteborg, 1905, 1907). Decoration: 1 initial (f. 199r; 2 lines) in b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
Title:: Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
Scope & Content:: Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337
Title:: Miscellany, including a cartulary from St Augustine's, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of five different parts bound together in the early modern period. ff. 1r–11r: Cartulary owned by the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury; fragmentary (12th century). ff. 12r–31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (The Textbook of Sins), incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 12r-31v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez (‘The Harleian Roll’)
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechiez, imperfect, also known as 'The Harleian Roll' for the series of shields painted around 1314 in the upper margins of the leaves (only 161 surviving). Decoration: The shields may have been painted in the upper margins around 1314, according t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 409
Title:: Registrum Brevium; collection of statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Registrum Brevium. ff. 45r-52v: Statues of Westminster I, introduced as follows: ‘Ces sunt les establisemenz le Roy Edward fuiz le Roy Henri fez a Westmoster a son premer parlement general apres son coronement apres la Cluse Paske lan de son Regne tierz par son Conseil et...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1280
Extent:: 1 volume

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