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561. Harley MS 6613

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6613
Title:
Lanterne of Light
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1409-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

562. Harley MS 6615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6615
Title:
The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

563. Harley MS 6628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6628
Title:
St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis; Duns Scotus, Commentary on Lombard's Sententiae (excerpt); Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum; Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus; Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum; Decretum abbreviatum; Werner von Schussenried, Decretum versificatum; Auctoritates Aristotelis (fl...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus. ff. 3r-37r: Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Prior of the the Benedictine abbey of Melk (r. 1418-1423), Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum (‘Biblia versificata’). ff. 39r-183r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

564. Harley MS 6641

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6641
Title:
Jack Upland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Jack Upland. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), A note 'On the preface to Urry's edition of Chaucer'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

565. Harley MS 6644

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6644
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 2r-2v: A table of contents for Magna Carta. ff. 4r-10v: Magna Carta de Libertatibus Angliae. ff. 10v-13v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13v-18r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 18r-29v: Statuta de Marleberge. ff. 29v-55r: The Statute of W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1285-c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

566. Harley MS 6670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6670
Title:
Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

567. Harley MS 6718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6718
Title:
Collection of sermons; tract on the Pater Noster from William of Nassyngton’s Speculum Vitae; treatise on making testaments
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts that were produced separately in England in the 15th century. Part 1 (ff. 2-15) contains a collection of Latin sermons with occasional quotations in Middle English. Part 2 (ff. 16-33), contains a Middle English verse commentary on th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

568. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

569. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

570. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

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