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391. Harley MS 2321

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2321
Title:
Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi; Menardus Monchus, Generalis et compendiosa librorum bibliae notitia; Martin of Troppau, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum; Mirabilia urbis Romae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (excerpts); collection of Latin tracts; John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae (excerpts); Latin poems; Speculum Monachorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); ending ‘explicit sermo Francisci de Maronis de indulgenciis’. ff. 17r-62r: A Middle English sermon on the Syon Pardon. ff. 62v-63v: A Middle English tract on the Pardon of Assisi. ff. 65r-88v: ‘Menard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

392. Harley MS 2322

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2322
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
The Pore Caitif, a Middle English manual of religious instruction, containing the following tracts: f. 1*v: Added list of contents, with the proverb 'Principium gratum finem facit esse beatum'. f. 2*r: Added inscriptions (see Provenance). f. 3*v: Added drawing of Christ, with the proverb '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

393. Harley MS 2324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2324
Title:
The Lanterne of Liȝt
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Lanterne of Liȝt (The Lanterne of Light), a Lollard tract, written in Middle English in the early 15th century, containing an exposition, supported by passages from the Bible and from the writings of the Fathers and medieval divines, of the principal tenets of the fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

394. Harley MS 2330

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2330
Title:
Middle English translations of tracts by Pseudo-Augustine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Middle English translations of four pseudo-Augustinian texts thought to have been made by an anonymous Wycliffite translator. ff. 1r-66v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De salutaribus documentis (beginning 'A my dere broþir if þou coneitist to wite'). ff. 66v-97v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

395. Harley MS 2332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2332
Title:
Illustrated almanac
Scope & Content:
A small illustrated almanac produced during the time of Henry IV (r. 1399-1413). The manuscript includes: Calendar (ff. 1v-13r); Table of dominical letters (ff. 13v-14r); Solar eclipse diagrams from 1411 to 1479 (ff. 14v-15r); Lunar eclipse diagrams from 1406 to 1481 (ff. 15v-17r); Zodia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1412
Extent:

1 volume

396. Harley MS 2333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2333
Title:
Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s Colle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

397. Harley MS 2335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2335
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

398. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

399. Harley MS 2338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume

400. Harley MS 2339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2339
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Rule of the Life of the Virgin Mary; Myrrour of Synners; The Three Arrows of Doomsday; treatise on the Three Estates; Song of Love of Jesus; William Lychefelde, Complaint of God
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prayer to Christ, beginning imperfectly due to the loss of a preceding folio: 'þere þi modir make þou þat þi love and þi charite; felowshippe me to þi modir'. ff. 2r-3r: A prayer to Christ, entitled: 'þis orisoun þat folowiþ is in mynde of ihesu cristis passioun'; beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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