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771. Harley MS 4789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4789
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

772. Harley MS 4800

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4800
Title:
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, Books 4-5
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, a Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis, incomplete, containing Book 4 (lacking chapters 41-66, the beginnings of chapters 7 and 67, the endings of chapters 6 and 40, and a folio with the middle of chapter 89) and Book 5, Chapte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

773. Harley MS 4826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4826
Title:
John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

774. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

775. Harley MS 4866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4866
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes. The poem was composed in c. 1410-1411 and addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales (the future Henry V). This manuscript is one the early copies of the text and was possibly prepared under the supervision of Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1411-c 1420
Extent:

Parchment codex.

776. Harley MS 4890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4890
Title:
The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93r: The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version with a table of lections (ff. 1r-8r). Decoration: Large (5-line) 'Champ' initials in gold in frames with blue and purple grounds, with foliate extensions, at the beginning of each book. Large (3-line) initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

777. Harley MS 4912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4912
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

778. Harley MS 4930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4930
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

779. Harley MS 4971

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971
Title:
Grammatical, legal, and philosophical tracts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

780. Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128
Title:
Le Manuel des pechiez
Scope & Content:
ff. 93r–127v: William of Waddington, Le Manuel des pechiez (after f. 120v, 1305 lines are missing). Includes an inserted sermon in 122 stanzas (f. 123v), ‘Deu le omnipotent’ (Dean 199, nos. 635, 599). f. 127v: Names of knights of the Round Table, from Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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