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461. Harley MS 3300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3300
Title:
Formulary from the diocese of Exeter
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Two Latin indentures from Devon, one relating to the vicar of Cornwood, and the other to Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. f. 2r: A Middle English poem on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, 'Love come outte fro heven'; ending with the attribution: 'Quod Breche' [...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

462. Harley MS 3362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3362
Title:
Collection of macaronic poems, songs, proverbs and riddles; grammatical rules; the last words of Thomas Cromwell; trilingual courtly love lyrics
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-79v: A collection of Latin poems, songs, proverbs and riddles on various religious and secular subjects, sometimes featuring Middle English verse (ff. 2v-5r, 21r, 33r, 36r, 89r-91r). Entitled ‘Collectio Carminum de rebus varijs et rythmicorum’ and associated with a canon of Bri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

463. Harley MS 3363

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3363
Title:
Meditationes ad quendam monacum anachoritam; Speculum sacerdotum; Speculum peccatoris; Speculum conversacionis honestae; Doctrina laicorum; Decem signa divini amoris et de malis sacerdotis; legal formularies
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains theological and legal works in Latin and English that were copied in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The manuscript can be divided into eight parts (Part 1 is ff. 2r-18r; Part 2 is ff. 19r-47v; Part 3 is ff. 48r-58v; Part 4 is ff. 59r-66v; Part 5 is ff. 67r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

464. Harley MS 3371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3371
Title:
Collection of medical texts and recipes, including works by John of Arderne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical texts and recipes, including many works by the English practitioner John of Arderne (b. 1307, d. c. 1378). This collection has been identified as the exemplar used by the author of the Middle English translation of Arderne's works and other text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

465. Harley MS 3383

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3383
Title:
Collection of medical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Middle English treatise on urine, beginning imperfectly: 'But yf the malyncole and the fleumatyk make þe suche than hy buthe yn a[…] oþer in a fever tercian. Nowe speke we of twey rede urynys with a whyte resydeus scheweth a man bue en a fever'; ending: 'and lete hyn use ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

466. Harley MS 3388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3388
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent., 1st half. Latin and Middle English. Copy. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - a) Practica de omnibus morbis (ff. 1-4v); - b) Rogerius de Parma, Chirurgia (ff. 5-19): see Thorndike-Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

467. Harley MS 3407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3407
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical Texts and Recipes; late 12th cent. - 15th cent. Latin, Middle English and French. Copies. Many codicological units imperfect. A composite and miscellaneous volume including a proto-ensemble of the so-called Trotula texts (art. 1, ff. 1-19), and excerpts from Kyrannides...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1160-1499
Extent:
1 item

468. Harley MS 3432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3432
Title:
The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

469. Harley MS 3486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3486
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

470. Harley MS 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3490
Title:
Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

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