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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320, ff 31r-52r
Title:: A lunar prognostication in verse
Scope & Content:: A lunar prognostication in verse; edited from the present manuscript in Means 1993, pp. 112-147; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), nos. 2119.00 and 6735.00, and in New...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 22 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v
Title:: Directions for braiding
Scope & Content:: Directions for braiding; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 2947.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r
Title:: Medical recipes for mothers
Scope & Content:: Two medical recipes for mothers (f. 74r). Title 'A medecyn for the moder', incipit: 'Take grene ferne that growing / in the feylde'; title 'Anodyr for the same', incipit: 'Take the levys of / an elme'. A 17th-century hand produced another copy of the recipes on the facing page (f. 73v). Also i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: Late 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2321
Title:: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi; Menardus Monchus, Generalis et compendiosa librorum bibliae notitia; Martin of Troppau, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum; Mirabilia urbis Romae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (excerpts); collection of Latin tracts; John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae (excerpts); Latin poems; Speculum Monachorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); ending ‘explicit sermo Francisci de Maronis de indulgenciis’. ff. 17r-62r: A Middle English sermon on the Syon Pardon. ff. 62v-63v: A Middle English tract on the Pardon of Assisi. ff. 65r-88v: ‘Menard...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2322
Title:: The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:: The Pore Caitif, a Middle English manual of religious instruction, containing the following tracts: f. 1*v: Added list of contents, with the proverb 'Principium gratum finem facit esse beatum'. f. 2*r: Added inscriptions (see Provenance). f. 3*v: Added drawing of Christ, with the proverb '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2324
Title:: The Lanterne of Liȝt
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Lanterne of Liȝt (The Lanterne of Light), a Lollard tract, written in Middle English in the early 15th century, containing an exposition, supported by passages from the Bible and from the writings of the Fathers and medieval divines, of the principal tenets of the fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2330
Title:: Middle English translations of tracts by Pseudo-Augustine
Scope & Content:: Contents: Middle English translations of four pseudo-Augustinian texts thought to have been made by an anonymous Wycliffite translator. ff. 1r-66v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De salutaribus documentis (beginning 'A my dere broþir if þou coneitist to wite'). ff. 66v-97v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2332
Title:: Illustrated almanac
Scope & Content:: A small illustrated almanac produced during the time of Henry IV (r. 1399-1413). The manuscript includes: Calendar (ff. 1v-13r); Table of dominical letters (ff. 13v-14r); Solar eclipse diagrams from 1411 to 1479 (ff. 14v-15r); Lunar eclipse diagrams from 1406 to 1481 (ff. 15v-17r); Zodia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1411-1412
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2333
Title:: Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s Colle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2335
Title:: The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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