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21. Harley MS 171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 171
Title:
Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Alchemical recipe to ‘ze [see] the secrets of secrets & frest & last as ye may se in planyttes and in planephiffres’. ff. 2r–109r: Commentary on the Apocalypse of John in the Wycliffite translation, with biblical passages alternating with commentary in a continuous sequence. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

22. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

23. Harley MS 201

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 201
Title:
Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle of English history
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r–161r: Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle of English history in rhyming couplets (metrical chronicle). Harley MS 201 was used by Thomas Hearne for his edition of Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, since it supplies text missing in British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A XI. Decoration: Full ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

24. Harley MS 207

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 207
Title:
The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 16th-century Catholic-Protestant disputation on the Transubstantiation. Contents: ff. 1r-29r: The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille; the title page on f. 1r contains the year ‘1532’ (with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532
Extent:

1 volume

25. Harley MS 209

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 209
Title:
Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum; Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis; Peter of Oxford, Summula Confessionis and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of theological and ecclesiastical texts, probably created for a monk of Abingdon Abbey. Contents: f. 1*v: Partial accounts of Abingdon Abbey, notes on sugar, and medical notes on bloodletting, 14th century. ff. 1r-30v: Collection of short theological texts and copies of ecclesias...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

26. Harley MS 210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 210
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–24v: Mixed Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross (imperfect) ff. 25r–26v: Hours of the Passion (imperfect). ff. 34v–36v: Various prayers and suffrages, prayers in English. ff. 36v–43v: Psalms of the Passion. ff. 47r–59r: The Penitential Psalms followed by the Litany and prayers (includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

27. Harley MS 211

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 211
Title:
Pastoral manual
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–3v: Versicles and psalms, ‘Hic incipiunt quindecim psalmi.’ ff. 3v–15v: ‘Matutine beate uirginis marie per totum annum.’ ff. 16r–18r: ‘Ad completorium.’ f. 18r: Invocation of the Trinity, ‘Deus pater in primo folio ✠ deus filius in secundo filio ✠ deus spiritus sanctus in tercio folio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

28. Harley MS 215

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 215
Title:
Thomas Becket, Epistolae; a legend of the body of St Thomas the Apostle; Hrabanus Maurus, Cena Cypriani; Alan of Tewkesbury, Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Northern Passion (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Thomas Becket, Epistolae, beginning ‘Desiderio desideravi videre faciem vestram’. ff. 106v-197r: A legend of the body of St Thomas the Apostle, beginning 'Thomas apostolus Ihesu Christi in ulteriori india sedens in hoc modi admirabili cathedra’. ff. 107r-113v: Hraban...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

30. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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