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181. Harley MS 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1785
Title:
Astronomical texts and tables; John Somer, Kalendarium; the Statute of the Forest of Waltham; an extract from Palladius Rutilis, De Agricultura; a treatise by Nicholas Bollarde on the ordering of trees; notes on agricultural matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An astronomical table with, for each month of a year, 4-9 columns and 31 rows with Arabic numbers in brown or red ink. f. 3v: A Middle English astronomical text for calculating the epact, beginning: 'Yf thou wilt perfitly and brefly know the tru Age of the mone . whan so ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

182. Harley MS 1806

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1806
Title:
Richard Rolle, The Middle English Prose Psalter with Latin Canticles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Richard Rolle, the Middle English Prose Psalter, imperfect at the beginning in Psalm 1.1, incipit: 'to hym dey of body and soul.' ff. 152r-170v: Canticles in Middle English with Latin headings including the Old Testament Canticles and Magnificat in Richard Rolle's transl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

183. Harley MS 1808

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1808
Title:
Collection of chronicles, letters, and charters relating to England and York Cathedral
Scope & Content:
A collection of historical texts probably belonging to York Cathedral Priory or a member of the chapter, as indicated by the focus on York and its cathedral in several of these texts. ff. 1v-8r: annals from AD 1-1122, after c. 500 mostly focused on events in England, Latin. f. 9r: various insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

184. Harley MS 1845

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1845
Title:
Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, containing English saints such as Wulfstan, Milburga (in red), Oswald of Worchester, David, Cedd, Edward the Martyr (Death and Translation), Cuthbert, Guthlac, Ælfheah, Deposition and Translation of Erkenwald (both in red), John of Beverley, Dunstan, St Ethelbert ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

185. Harley MS 1862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1862
Title:
Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 1878

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1878
Title:
Customs on trade
Scope & Content:
A collection of 103 original and copied documents relating to customs on trade and their regulation in England, particularly in London. Contents: f. 1v: List of counties in an arbitrary order, late 17th century, pastedown. ff. 2r-21r: Original petitions, licences, writs, warrants, and charter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century to late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

187. Harley MS 1896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1896
Title:
Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles, and the Athanasian Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles and the Athanasian Creed. Decoration: 2 full borders in colours and gold with foliate decoration and gold balls and historiated initials at the beginning of Psalms 1, 109 (ff. 1r, 78v). 5 3-sided...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

188. Harley MS 1952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1952
Title:
Scope & Content:
Heraldic Treatise with Armorial Drawings and Medical Recipe for Edward IV; 1517. Middle English. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this heraldic manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only an additional medical recipe is fully itemised in the description. The main text is a heraldic tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 item

189. Harley MS 2110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2110
Title:
Cartulary of Castle Acre Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 4*r–5*v: Fragment of Ælfric, Homilies, first series, for St John and St Stephen (1st half of the 11th century, Old English, written in insular minuscule); with a large initial and title in display capitals in red (f. 4*r); 220 × 150 mm. One bifolium, missing four lines of text in the upper p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

190. Harley MS 2169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2169
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript contains a collection of arms compiled in the time of Henry VI or Edward IV. The collection focuses on English arms, as is indicated by its opening pages which feature verses on and drawings of William of Normandy (f. 1r), King Henry V (f. 2r), and King Henry VI (f. 3r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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