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751. Harley MS 3960

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3960
Title:
Cartulary of Melrose Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. ir: Fragment of a former flyleaf with inscription. f. 1r–109r: Cartulary, arranged topographically. Includes copies of numerous royal and occasional papal and episcopal charters throughout (with contemporary additions: ff. 65r–66v, 76v, 100r, 102r–109r). f. 110v: Added text of an indulgance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1488-1490s
Extent:

Parchment codex

752. Harley MS 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4011
Title:
An English miscellany including poems by John Lydgate; Craft of Dying; Duodecim Gradus Humilitatis; Counsels of Isidore; The Libel of English Policy; Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Anglie; John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth; John Russell, Book of Nurture
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: John Lydgate, So as the Crabbe Goth Forward; fragment. f. 1r: John Lydgate, All riȝtwisnes doþe now proced. ff. 1r-1v: John Lydgate, Translacyon by lydgate of Stans puer ad mensum. ff. 1v-2r: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Extract of Book III, here entitled: ‘Lenvoye t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

753. 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

754. Harley MS 4015

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4015
Title:
Cartulary of the Hospital of St Giles, Holborn
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Added account of the founding of the Hospital of St Giles, in English. f. 1v: Added account of the events of 1125. f. 2r: Added donation charter. ff. 2v–3r: Contemporary table of contents, giving a list of parishes in the cartulary. f. 4r–v: Added donation charters. ff. 5r–205v: Cart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1402
Extent:

1 volume

755. Harley MS 4016

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4016
Title:
A cookery book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: The banquet for King Richard II, organised by John Fordham, Bishop of Durham, at Durham House, London, in 1387, ‘[T]his is the purviaunce made for King Richard being with þe Duc of lancastre at the Bisshoppes place of Durham at London the xxiij day of September the yere of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

756. Harley MS 4027

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4027
Title:
New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181r: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version (c. 1380), including the Gospels of Matthew (ff. 1r-22r), Mark (ff. 22r-36v), Luke (ff. 36v-61v), and John (ff. 61v-79v); Pauline Epistles (ff. 79r-130v); Acts of the Apostles (ff. 130v-146r); Catholic Epistles (ff. 146r-167...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

757. Harley MS 4172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4172
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Sacerdos parochialis and De Festis Duplicibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains various items that appear to have been compiled for the use of a priest. The first part (ff. 1r-63r) contains one of the seven extant copies of the Sacerdos parochialis, a manual for parish priests in Middle English and Latin, including tracts on the Pater noster, Ave Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

758. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
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

759. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

760. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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