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781. Harley MS 4987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4987
Title:
Visio Tnugdali; Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes; Regula Beati Augustini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitiones; Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 and 1; Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini;Pope Innocent III, Liber de contemptu mundi; Libellus de septem artibus philosophiae coelestis; Ambrose, De Virginitate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts that were copied by a single hand. Its contents strongly resemble those of Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 109 [CIX], as described by Henry Octavius Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus (Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

782. Harley MS 4999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4999
Title:
Statutes in Middle English from Edward III to Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-227v: Statutes in Middle English from the reign of Edward III to Henry VI (1.E.3 to 18.H.6) entitled ‘Nova Statuta’. f. 228v: A Middle English poem: ‘Whan phebus resplendysaunte in the hye region /and wyth hys goldyn beamys withdre hys lumynary / ffrom the cold moysture of dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1439-1440
Extent:
1 volume

783. Harley MS 5017

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5017
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Macabees to Revelation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Macabees to Revelation, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

784. Harley MS 5026

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5026
Title:
Collections of sermons and expositions on the Psalms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains sermons and expositions on the Psalms, and seems to comprise three parts that may have been produced separately in the 13th century Part 1 (ff. 1r-42v); Part 2 (ff. 43r-139r); Part 3 (ff. 140r-145v). It contains a previously unnoticed line in Early Middle English on f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

785. Harley MS 5036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5036
Title:
Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

786. Harley MS 5044

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5044
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Brevium; Robert Grosseteste, Rules for Household and Estate Management (Les Reules Seynt Robert), Rules for his Own Household, Statutes for the Diocese of Lincoln, Treatise on Confession; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript predominantly contains copies of well-known English statutes of the 13th century, but it also includes previously unknown copies of Anglo-Norman and Latin works by the 13th-century authors Robert Grosseteste (b. c. 1170, d. 1253) and Walter of Henley (fl. c. 1260). It includes hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

787. Harley MS 5085

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5085
Title:
The 'Mirrur' (Middle English translation of Robert de Gretham's Miroir)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-211v: The 'Mirrur', the Middle English translation of Robert de Gretham's Miroir. Decoration: Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

788. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

789. Harley MS 5144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5144
Title:
Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254r: Year Book, containing the Term reports in Law French for the reigns of King Henry IV (years 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14) and King Henry V (years 9, 2 and 1). The manuscript contains a few later additions from the late 15th or early 16th century: f. 1*verso: Medical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

790. Harley MS 5146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5146
Title:
Tenurae; Natura Brevium; Novelli Tenores
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of collections of legal cases written in Latin and French. It also contains a previously unidentified stanza from the Middle English poem The Court of Sapience, usually attributed to John Lydgate, but here assigned to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem has only been ide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1483
Extent:
1 volume

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