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151. Harley MS 1659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1659
Title:
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

152. Harley MS 1666

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1666
Title:
The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-111v: The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. iii recto: A note in pencil by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'This MS is stated to have belonged to Matthew ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

153. Harley MS 1671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1671
Title:
The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

154. Harley MS 1680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1680
Title:
French historical collection
Scope & Content:
Composite manuscript mostly of French historical tracts relating to the late seventeenth century. Contents: ff. 1-8: collection of over 200 medical recipes in Middle English, French, and Latin, 14th century. The English recipes probably translated from French or Anglo-Norman. Prologue inc. 'He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century to the late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

155. Harley MS 1701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1701
Title:
Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne; Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord and the Hours of the Passion; King Robert of Sicily; a mass against the plague
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Robert Mannyng [Robert Mannyng of Brunne] (d. in or after 1338), Handlyng Synne, a Middle English translation of the Anglo-Norman French Manuel des pechiez, attributed to William of Waddington (late 13th century) [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 778], enti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

1 volume

156. Harley MS 1704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1704
Title:
Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

157. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

158. Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
2 folios.

159. Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
93 folios.

160. Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
118 folios.

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