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Language English, Middle Place Eastern England Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 61823

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Add MS 61823
Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 671

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Harley MS 671
Title:
Collection of geomantic treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Two astronomical tables, entitled: ‘Tabula terminorum planetarum’ and ‘Tabula facibus Planetarum’. f. 1v: A brief note in English on the interpretation of geomantic figures for different types of man, for example: ‘Thies [two geomantic figures] signify men of trost’. f. 2r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1477-c 1489
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2260
Title:
William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-183v: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae (Mirror of Life); Middle English translation with marginal headings in Latin; imperfect at the beginning (DIMEV 423-29). Decoration: Numerous 2-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2338

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Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4012
Title:
Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s-1470s
Extent:
1 volume

6. Lansdowne MS 204

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 204
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle (first version)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the first version of the Chronicle of John Hardyng (b. 1378, d. 1465), a former soldier and spy for King Henry V (r. 1413-1422). It was produced in Lincolnshire or the East Midlands in the middle of the 15th century and was probably commissione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1450
Extent:

1 volume