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571. Harley MS 6923

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6923
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-117v: Prick of Conscience. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title and contents page, where the work is attributed to ‘St Richard Roll Commonly call[e]d Hampole of Hampole near Doncaster, who dyed, anno 1349’, added in the 16th century. Decoration: Small ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

572. Harley MS 7184

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7184
Title:
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

573. Harley MS 7322

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7322
Title:
Collections of Latin sermons, theological excerpts, moralized tales, moral discourses and expositions on biblical citations
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*verso: Latin sermons. ff. 1r-12v: A collection of theological excerpts attributed to Augustine of Hippo; Bernard of Clairvaux; Bede the Venerable; Isidore of Seville; Jerome; Ambrose; Caesarius of Arles; Gregory the Great; Origen; John Chrysostom; and Seneca. Beginning...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

574. Harley MS 7333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7333
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

575. Harley MS 7334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7334
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), including the Tale of Gamelyn. See Boffey and Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (2005), no. 4019. For an edition, see Riverside (1987). The tales are in an order which is unique to this manuscript, they lack some headings and r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

576. Harley MS 7335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7335
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-163v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; imperfect. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 139v: a practice alphabet and inscriptions (‘essavyd offe my master’) Decoration: The manuscript is minimally decorated. Occasional small-scale strap-work in brown ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

577. Harley MS 7358

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7358
Title:
Collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: A collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers, almost entirely in Latin; featuring a drawing of the pontifical cross and drawings of mnemonic hands (f. 1r); a note about the Virgin Mary (f. 1r); the Sacraments (ff. 2r-2v); a n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

578. Harley MS 7398/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/1
Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

579. Harley MS 7398/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/2
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-359r: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 145r-150v), imperfect. The Calendar has various later 15th-century additions, including the feast days of Sts Cadoc, Anasasia, Cyriac and Julitta, Desiderius, Etheldreda, Louis of France, Mathurin of Larchant, Osmund and his ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

580. Harley MS 7578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7578
Title:
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1700
Extent:

1 volume

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