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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 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 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 978, ff 160v-162r
Title:: A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
Scope & Content:: A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1636
Extent:: 3 folios.

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 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 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, 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 14
Title:: Transcripts of all the parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of King Edward III. Volume 1
Scope & Content:: Transcripts of all the parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of King Edward III, from the 4th to the 29th year of his reign, compiled by Simonds d'Ewes. Table of contents of both volumes given at the beginning of this volume: ‘Transcripta omnium Rotulorum Parliamenti in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 15
Title:: Transcripts of all the parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of King Edward III. Volume 2
Scope & Content:: Transcripts of all the parliamentary rolls kept in the Tower of London from the time of Edward III, from the 36th to the 51st year of his reign, compiled by Simonds d'Ewes. Not in D'Ewes's hand, but he has foliated the manuscript, and the running titles may be in his hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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