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582. Harley MS 2254
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2254
- Title:
- Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
583. Harley MS 2255
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2255
- Title:
- A collection of poems by John Lydgate
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of poetry by or attributed to John Lydgate (c. 1370-1449/50?), containing 45 Middle English poems, mostly religious. McCracken considered as Lydgate's all but two of the poems (Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas and A Satirical Description of his Lady), whose aut...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1460-c 1470
- Extent:
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1 volume
584. Harley MS 2256
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2256
- Title:
- The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (common version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen'
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1-202v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (common version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen' (imperfect). Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold with acanthus leaves extending into the margins (f. 1r). Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flouri...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
585. Harley MS 2257
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2257
- Title:
- Medulla grammaticae
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 6208...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
586. Harley MS 2258
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2258
- Title:
- John Hardyng, Chronicle (shorter version)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 31r-315r: John Hardyng, Chronicle (shorter version), preceded by an alphabetical list of terms occurring in the chronicle.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
587. Harley MS 2259
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2259
- Title:
- Richard Strangways, Tractatus nobilis de lege et exposicione armorum
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-5v: An introduction and table of contents, beginning ‘Pensa, Successor, in tui cordis oraculo de primo Predecestore, qui hoc nobile ex pluribus libris aggregatum si dici possit non minus se ipso predilexit’. ff. 7v-10r: Lists of names of nobility that came with William the Co...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1455
- Extent:
- 1 volume
588. 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
589. Harley MS 2261
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2261
- Title:
- An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
590. Harley MS 2266
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2266
- Title:
- The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. This is the earliest of one of the two English translations of the Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum, a Latin version of an Arabic compilation by the philosopher Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik. The Latin work was translated into...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume