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91. Harley MS 4733

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4733
Title:
Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

92. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

93. Harley MS 2253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253
Title:
Henri d'Acre, Miscellany of secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics'), including King Horn and the Follies of Fashion, and Psalms listed for recitation at certain times (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript divides in two parts. Part I (ff. 1r-48v) includes a collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French. Part II (ff. 49r-140v and 142r-142v, except for folio 52v) was written in c. 1330-1340 by the so-called 'Harley scribe' and contains a miscellany of texts including secu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

94. Harley MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 116
Title:
An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
Scope & Content:
This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

95. Harley MS 5233, ff 11r-339r

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Harley MS 5233, ff 11r-339r
Title:
Nova Statuta
Scope & Content:
Nova Statuta including statutes for the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377) (ff. 11r-140v), Richard II (r. 1377-1399) (ff. 141r-218r), Henry IV (r. 1399-1413) (ff. 219r-265v), Henry V (r. 1413-1422) (ff. 265v-289v), to 15 Henry VI (1336) (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471) (ff. 289v-338v). This portion of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1436
Extent:
328 folios.

96. Harley MS 947, ff 107r-169r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 947, ff 107r-169r
Title:
Novae narrationes
Scope & Content:
Novae narrationes, a compilation in Anglo-Norman French (with titles in Latin) presenting the forms of pleading in courts, composed in the second half of the reign of Edward I (r. 1272-1307) and later supplemented with new formulas. This mauscript includes the type C of the Novae Narrationes, wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
63 folios + 1 unfoliated leaf

97. Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r
Title:
Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: 'Argumenta brevium', incipit: 'Lex equi'. f. 1v: Register of taxable goods for the diocese of Salisbury. f. 2r: Register of tithes in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. f. 2r: Register of taxes for the province of Canterbury excluding possessions of the Templars, Hospitaliers, and t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
6 folios.

98. Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (c. 30 recipes). Incipit: 'Pro dolore dentium vinum et peper / misse'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 1132e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

99. Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v
Title:
Novele cirurgerie, excerpt
Scope & Content:
Novele cirurgerie, excerpt (365 lines); Imperfect. A collection of medical recipes in Anglo-Norman verse. Beginning at 'En eisil e chaut sure mis', breaking at 'E sur ceo la confectiun'. Text fully printed in Hunt 1987. See also Hieatt and Jones 1990.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
2 folios.

100. Harley MS 1121, ff 156r-168r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1121, ff 156r-168r
Title:
Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:
Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour. Decoration: Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

13 folios.

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