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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4260
Title:: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-108r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady, in 6 books. f. 108r: A Latin verse prayer for the king, copied twice entirely, and once partially, attributed to ‘quod Clerk .J.’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A Latin note about other copies of Lydgate’s Life of O...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4292
Title:: Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1478-1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4294
Title:: Hugh of Campden, Sidrak and Bokkus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sidrak and Bokkus, a Middle English translation by Hugh of Campden of the long rhymed French Sidrac; imperfect at the end; beginning: 'If þat þou vundestonde can / Haþ vij chambrez and no moo' (edited by Burton, Sidrak and Bokkus (1998-1999); see also IMEV 772; NIVEM 772; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4344
Title:: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-76r: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and again from 1470-1471) beginning: 'Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion [dice]batur'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 76v: A fragment of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4349
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collection of Medical and Cosmetic Recipes and short Medical Treatises; circa 1510. Middle English. Copies. The MS. includes a collection of medical recipes (ff. 5-12v, 13-222v, 249-249v; item 1), short medical treatises (ff. 223-248; item 2) and cosmetic recipes (ff. 258v-260v, 262v-266; ite...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1505-1515
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486
Title:: A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1631
Extent:: 148 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4690
Title:: The Brut Chronicle; 'Richard Coer de Lion'
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Middle English translation of the Brut Chronicle from French by John Mandeville in 1435. It also includes a poem in Middle English verse known as 'Richard Coer de Lion'. Contents: ff. 4r-108r: The so-called 'Peculiar version' of the Brut ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4733
Title:: Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4763
Title:: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; poem in praise of Henry V
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-275r: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; treatise including state letters and other documents concerning the right of England to France, and literary works such as an excerpt from the Somnium viridarii, Chapter 186 (ff. 35r-41r); the Bucolicum carmen XII [...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4775
Title:: Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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