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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2270
Title:: Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274
Title:: A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2276
Title:: Middle English sermon collection
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Sixty sermons on the Sunday gospels, certain major feast-days in the Christmas season and Ascension, from the First Sunday in Advent to the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Translated from the 12th-century Latin Filius matris collection, with additional sermons not based on the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2277
Title:: South English Legendary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2278
Title:: John Lydgate, Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund
Scope & Content:: The presentation copy of John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. Commissioned by Abbot William Curetys for presentation to King Henry VI upon or shortly after his visit to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds between Christmas 1433 and Easter 1434. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1434-1439
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2279
Title:: Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-146r: The Brut Chronicle down to King Edward III, imperfect at the end. [ff. 1v, 2r, 2v, 146v are blank]. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 2r: a dedicatory note in verse, beginning: 'Liber in excusatione Mittensis et defensione ipsius'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2280
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-98r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585), beginning: 'The double sorowe of troilus to tellen / Þat was þe kynge Priamus sone of Troye / In lovynge how hise avent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2281
Title:: Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Prick of Conscience (Southern Recension). Decoration: Blue initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2309
Title:: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320
Title:: Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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