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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2181
Title:: Medulla grammaticae and other texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript comprises the Medulla grammaticae (ff. 9r-94r) with additional texts and notes (ff. 3r-8v, 94v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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