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291. Harley MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 984
Title:
The Gospel of Matthew (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71v: The Gospel of Matthew in Middle English, imperfect at the beginning and end due to the loss of folios; ff. 7r-7v, 56r-56v and 64r-64v have been supplied in the 17th century to substitute lost text and appear to have been copied from the Coverdale Bible. The manuscript co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

292. Harley MS 992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 992
Title:
A collection of heraldic texts and drawings
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains heraldic texts and drawings from the 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century in Middle English, Middle French and Latin. Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Drawings of arms of aristocratic families, several in colours; with family names in English. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

293. Harley MS 993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 993
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection; Treatise of Discretion of Spirits
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection, English translation of a work by written by the Aragonese Franciscan Luis de Fontibus (fl. 1383-1394); beginning: ‘Heere bigynneþ a tretis of viij chapitres necessarie for men þat ʒiven hem to perfection . whiche was founden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

294. Harley MS 1000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1000
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

295. Harley MS 1002

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1002
Title:
A collection of grammatical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Formula, a tract in Latin verse on the concords explained in English prose. f. 12*r: the first line of Castrianus. ff. 13r-29v: a treatise on the construction used with the eight parts of speech. f. 30r: a note on the construction of interest and oportet. ff. 31r-48v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century - early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

296. Harley MS 1005

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1005
Title:
Bury St Edmunds customary (‘Liber albus’)
Scope & Content:
Register known as ‘Liber albus’ (‘The White Book’): an inventory of charters, arranged under the headings Regum, Privilegia, Celeraria, Sacristia, de Camera, Elemosinar., De hospitali, Pitanciaria, De domo hospitum, De infirmaria, and Abbatia, each with numbered topographical subdivisions. Bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

297. Harley MS 1010

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1010
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany preceded by leaves from a liturgical manuscript (lectionary?) with musical notation (ff. ii recto-ix verso). Texts include: Treatise on urine (ff. 1r-23v); Regimen of health (ff. 23v-32r); Four medical recipes (ff. 32r-32v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1399
Extent:
40 folios.

298. Harley MS 1022

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1022
Title:
A miscellany of religious prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A tract on the nativity of John the Baptist (Latin). f. 1v: A short account of a ‘John the Hermit’ (Latin). f. 1v: The nun Eulalia whom the Virgin Mary asked to say the Ave more slowly (Latin). f. 1v: A priest who saw a woman clad in demons, translated from Caesarius of He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1425
Extent:

1 volume

299. Harley MS 1029

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1029
Title:
Mass lectionary from the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Mass lectionary with readings from the Gospels and Epistles in Middle English. These have been taken from the so-called ‘Early Version’ of the Wycliffite Bible. Contents: f. [1a]verso: A lection from Mark 8. ff. 2r-153v: Temporale, beginning ‘Here byginnyþ the gos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1490s
Extent:
1 volume

300. Harley MS 1033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1033
Title:
Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-9r: Table of contents. f. 9v: Exposicio Verborum Anglicorum in veteribus Cartis a Regibus Concessis; containing a list with Middle English legal terms (e.g. 'Miskenninge') with explanations of their meanings in French. ff. 14r-16v: Magna Carta. ff. 16v-18r: Carta de Libe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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