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431. Harley MS 2397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2397
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, The Mixed Life, and Bonum Est
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (Book II). ff. 73r-85r: Walter Hilton, The Mixed Life. ff. 85v-94r: Walter Hilton, Bonum Est (a commentary on Psalm 91). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-4*v, 95-98v: Fragments of a 14th-century liturgical manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

432. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

433. Harley MS 2399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2399
Title:
Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:
The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1625
Extent:
1 item

434. Harley MS 2402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2402
Title:
A grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174v: an anonymous grammatical treatise in Latin and Middle English. Decoration: Rubrics and underlining in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

435. Harley MS 2403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2403
Title:
John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191r: John Mirk, Festial; including verses on f. 151r (Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin); and f. 13r (Seven lines, ‘Wherfor pray we to hym to make us studfast yn our fay’); ending with the verses ‘Mentem sanctam [habuit], spontaneam [mortem sustinuit], honorem deo [dedit] et pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

436. Harley MS 2406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2406
Title:
Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite codex formed of three separate parts (ff. 1-11; 12-35, and 36-85). ff. 1r-11v: Prayer and devotional texts. ff. 12r-35v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis.' ff. 36r-86r: Devotional texts including Richard Roll...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

437. Harley MS 2407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2407
Title:
Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

438. Harley MS 2409

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2409
Title:
Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

439. Harley MS 2415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2415
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

440. Harley MS 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2417
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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