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511. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

512. Harley MS 1260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1260
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (The Percy Hours)
Scope & Content:
This prayer book contains items that are typical of a Book of Hours, including a Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Seven Penitential Psalms, and a Litany of Saints. However, its larger part comprises prayers in Latin and Anglo Norman that are not organised according to the canonical hours. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1370
Extent:

1 volume

513. Harley MS 1277

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1277
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Grammatical Treatises; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. A collection of grammatical treatises including: - a) A List of Latin verbs (ff. 51-149v); - b) Nicolaus de Munshulle, Opus grammaticum: verbale (ff. 150-169), another copy in Add. 37075, ff. 331-354: see G. L. Bursill-H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

514. Harley MS 1288

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1288
Title:
Speculum Christiani; a collection of Latin exempla; Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins); a form of confession in Middle English; The Chastising of God's Children (chapters 24 and 25); Pro natura pollucionis valde salubris; De solempnitate sancti nominis Jhesu Amen; John Mirk, Festial (excerpts); Nicholas Bozon, Contes moralisés; Middle English and Latin poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: Speculum Christiani (Middle English prose and verse), imperfect. ff. 34r-60r: A collection of Latin exempla. f. 63r: A table of contents. ff. 64r-75v: Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins), beginning ‘the sevene ded...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

515. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

516. Harley MS 1307

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1307
Title:
William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78r: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; dextera pars oculi. ff. 78r-142v: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; sinistra pars oculi. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 143r, 144v: A leaf from a household book, written in the 14th century. ff. 143v-144r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

517. Harley MS 1317

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1317
Title:
An abridgment of the statute laws
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94v: An abridgement of the statute laws from Magna Carta to the reign of King Henry VI, in Latin and French. f. 95v: A letter of ‘Johannis Stevenson’ to his brother ‘Capellanum Magistri Willelmi Broune Armigeri’, headed ‘Johannes Steveson suo fratri Philosopha accuratissimo ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

518. Harley MS 1336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1336
Title:
Commentaries on English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1275 (Westminster I). ff. 31r-127r: A commentary on the Statute of Westminster of 1285 (Westminster II). ff. 128r-140r : A commentary on Magna Carta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

519. Harley MS 1337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1337
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

520. Harley MS 1348

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1348
Title:
Statutes of William the Bastard; genealogical diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and family tree from Aethelberht to Edward III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Statutes of William the Bastard, written in Latin, beginning: 'Hic eciam intimatur quid Wilhelmus Rex Anglorum cum principibus suis consituit post conquistcionem [sic] Anglie'. ff. 9r-18v: A genealogical circular diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, followed by a family tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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