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192. Harley MS 2181, f 94v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2181, f 94v
- Title:
- Extract from Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum; notes
- Scope & Content:
- This leaf contains an extract from Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum: - begins 'Pluribus est membris distincta figura loquele'; ends 'Qui dices requiem timeo vel spero laborem' (verses 2361-2379; opening lines of Chapter XII). The leaf also contains notes from the Medulla grammaticae, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- Single parchment leaf (verso), bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181
193. Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r
- Title:
- Medulla grammaticae
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-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, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- 86 parchment leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181
194. Harley MS 2182
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2182
- Title:
- The Prose Brut
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
195. Harley MS 2202
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2202
- Title:
- A miscellany of English prose and verse
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
196. Harley MS 2247
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2247
- Title:
- Sermons in Middle English
- Scope & Content:
- Sermons. Marginal notes in Latin are in a number of hands, principally that of the main scribe. One English note (f. 1v) is in the hand of a reader. Frequent underlining within the text, probably by the scribe, highlights quotations and important names. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-2r): First Sunday...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
197. Harley MS 2248
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2248
- Title:
- The Prose Brut
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-17r: A table of contents for the Prose Brut. ff. 19r-290v: The Prose Brut; the Common Version to 1419. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 18v: A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus'; added in a 15th-century hand. Decoration: Guide letters in ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
198. Harley MS 2249
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2249
- Title:
- Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testame...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
199. Harley MS 2250
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2250
- Title:
- Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
200. Harley MS 2251
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2251
- Title:
- Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1460-1483
- Extent:
- 1 volume