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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2181
Title:: Medulla grammaticae and other texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript comprises the Medulla grammaticae (ff. 9r-94r) with additional texts and notes (ff. 3r-8v, 94v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2182
Title:: The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2202
Title:: A miscellany of English prose and verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2247
Title:: Sermons in Middle English
Scope & Content:: Sermons. Marginal notes in Latin are in a number of hands, principally that of the main scribe. One English note (f. 1v) is in the hand of a reader. Frequent underlining within the text, probably by the scribe, highlights quotations and important names. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-2r): First Sunday...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2248
Title:: The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: A table of contents for the Prose Brut. ff. 19r-290v: The Prose Brut; the Common Version to 1419. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 18v: A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus'; added in a 15th-century hand. Decoration: Guide letters in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2249
Title:: Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testame...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2250
Title:: Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2251
Title:: Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460-1483
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2252
Title:: The Commonplace Book of John Colyns, including Ipomydon, B version, and the stanzaic Morte Arthur
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript comprises two booklets of Middle English poetry and prose (ff. 54-85, 86-133) that were compiled into one volume in the early 16th century by John Colyns (d. c. 1542), mercer, of the parish of St Mary Woolchurch Haw, London. The manuscript contains the unique copies o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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