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211. Harley MS 2261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2261
Title:
An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

212. Harley MS 2266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2266
Title:
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. This is the earliest of one of the two English translations of the Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum, a Latin version of an Arabic compilation by the philosopher Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik. The Latin work was translated into...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

213. Harley MS 2268

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2268
Title:
Collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite and miscellaneous volume possibly put together for Thomas Spofford, abbot of St Mary's abbey at York (el. 1405) and bishop of Hereford (el. 1421), who retired at St Mary's Abbey in 1448 and died there in 1456 (see O'Mara, Four Middle English Sermons (2002), pp. 19-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

214. Harley MS 2270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

215. Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v
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:
109 paper leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2270

216. Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274
Title:
A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

217. Harley MS 2274, f 57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, f 57v
Title:
Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem
Scope & Content:
Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem (Walther, Initia Carminum (1959), no. 6525; Thorndike and Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits (1963), column 561). Often attributed to John of Garland. Rubric: 'Hic incipit librum computo manulis'. Begins: 'Filius esto dei celum bonus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

218. Harley MS 2274, ff 35r-46v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 35r-46v
Title:
Now late me thought I would begin
Scope & Content:
Now late me thought I would begin (NIMEV 2347; DIMEV 3777). A lament of the Virgin Mary, in 72 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with the refrain, ‘Who can not wepe come lerne at me’. Other witnesses: - Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 423, ff. 192v-205r (includes five stanzas not in the pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
12 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

219. Harley MS 2274, ff 47r-50v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 47r-50v
Title:
Doom of Urine compendium (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Two short treatises (ff. 47r-48v, 48v-50v) relating to urine and uroscopy (eVK2 nos 2878.00 and 7764.00), possibly extracts from Henry Daniel, Dome of Uryns (Liber uricrisarium) (see Keiser, Works of Science (1998), p. 3661). The first treatise begins: 'In the begynnyng þu shalt take hede to 4 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Four leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

220. Harley MS 2274, ff 58r-62v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 58r-62v
Title:
Collection of astrological and prognostication texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of astrological and prognostication texts, with calendars and tables, mostly in Middle English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
5 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

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