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441. Harley MS 2420

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2420
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
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

442. Harley MS 2421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2421
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

443. Harley MS 2431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2431
Title:
Breviary, with a York calendar and other liturgical texts
Scope & Content:
This breviary is a rare surviving example of a late medieval book that is known to have been used in (at least) two parish or local church settings: at the chapel of St Giles’s Hospital near Brompton-on-Swale, and slightly later in the chantry of St Giles, in the chapel of Ravensworth Castle, bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

444. Harley MS 2436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2436
Title:
Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 14th-century collection of sermons for saints' feast days (ff. 17r-168v), with sermons added in the 15th century at the beginning (ff. 1r-14v). Contents: ff. 1r-14v: A collection of sermons; with a previously unrecorded Middle English verse translation of Latin tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

445. Harley MS 2445

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2445
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

446. Harley MS 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
227 folios.

447. Harley MS 2668

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2668
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters: Medicine and Surgery: Sermons: Composite collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons: 15th cent., 1st half: Lat. and Enm: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

448. Harley MS 2787

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2787
Title:
Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Missal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation; damaged and beginning and ending imperfectly; beginning with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) with numerous English saints, including, in red: Wulstani, Edwardi, Cuthberte, Ricardi, Georgii, Dunstani, Aldelmi, translation of Edmund, Barn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1410
Extent:

1 volume

449. Harley MS 2851

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2851
Title:
Collection of religious texts and goliardic poems, including Alan of Beverley, Tractatus metricus de Susanna, and Miracles of the Virgin
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Latin verses, beginning: 'Si bibit expedit ust sedem hauriat'. ff. 1r-1v: Geomantic verses. f. 1v: Poem, beginning: 'balnea cornici qui prodest vel meretrici'. f. 1v: Poem on the Cross. ff. 2r-9v: Alan of Beverley, 'Tractatus metricus de Susanna per fratrem Alanum monac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

450. Harley MS 2862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2862
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-62v: The Hours of the Virgin; imperfect. ff. 64r-80r: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 80r-90v: The Litany containing English saints, followed by various prayers to God. ff. 91r-93v: The Mass of St Gregory; imperfect. The introductory rubric is repeated ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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