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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 202
Title:: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Anglo-Norman Chroniques (Chronicles) by Pierre (Peter) de Langtoft (b. 1270, d. 1300) covering the period from 688 to 1294. The text has the siglum 'Ha' in Wright's critical edition. Contents: ff. 2r-89v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chroniques. [f. 1v is blank]. Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 204
Title:: `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version' and has the siglum '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 212
Title:: `Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d'outre mer
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the popular 14th-century text Voyage d'outre mer by the supposed author 'Sir John Mandeville', commonly known as 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville'. This 15th-century copy of the text belongs to group A of the so-called 'vulgate or insular version'. Contents: ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 232
Title:: A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: A selection of draft indentures relating to different ecclesiastical properties. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, First Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Second Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Epistle to the Blessed Virgin Mary,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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.

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