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172. Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
- Title:
- John Crophill, Notebook
- Scope & Content:
- John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1456-1485
- Extent:
- 17 folios
173. Harley MS 1736
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1736
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Medical Miscellany including the Middle English Translation of John Bradmore, Philomena; mid 15th cent. (1446), with late 15th- and 16th-cent. additions. Middle English and Latin. The cataloguing of the MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust. The manuscript contains (ff. 6-184v) an anonymous t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1441-1451
- Extent:
- 1 item
174. Harley MS 1738
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1738
- Title:
- Medulla grammaticae
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, Harle...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
175. Harley MS 1740
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1740
- Title:
- Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
176. Harley MS 1747
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1747
- Title:
- Collection of alchemical treatises
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Tractatus dompni iohannis sawtre monachum de thorneye. ff. 15r-15v: Table of chapters of the Tractatus. ff. 15v-16r: Excerpts from the Speculum Secretorum Alkimie. ff. 16r-19v: Expositio Ortolani super hermetem. ff. 20r-20v: Untitled alchemical treatise, beginning 'Ec...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
177. Harley MS 1758
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1758
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
- Scope & Content:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, including the Tale of Gamelyn. Imperfect, with the loss of many folios throughout the manuscript. Occasional marginal notes in English and Latin are written by the scribe of the nearby text, and some (in red) by the rubricator. A few additional notes in ot...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Middle of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
178. Harley MS 1764
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1764
- Title:
- The Knight of the Tower, an anonymous Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de La Tour Landry, by Geoffroy IV de la Tour-Landry
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the only known surviving copy of the earlier Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de la Tour Landry by Geoffroy de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), known as The Knight of the Tower. This copy of the text is imperfect, with a catchword on f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
179. Harley MS 1766
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1766
- Title:
- John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
- Scope & Content:
- John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, an English translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait, with English marginal notes in red, in the same hand as the text. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Table of Contents t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1450-c 1460
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
180. Harley MS 1770
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1770
- Title:
- A trilingual Psalter
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains two parts that were produced at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire. The first part (ff. 3r-157v), written in the first half of the 14th century, contains the Psalms, canticles and hymns in Latin prose with parallel Anglo-Norman translations. The second part (ff. 158r-241r...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume