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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2402
Title:: A grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: an anonymous grammatical treatise in Latin and Middle English. Decoration: Rubrics and underlining in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2403
Title:: John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-191r: John Mirk, Festial; including verses on f. 151r (Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin); and f. 13r (Seven lines, ‘Wherfor pray we to hym to make us studfast yn our fay’); ending with the verses ‘Mentem sanctam [habuit], spontaneam [mortem sustinuit], honorem deo [dedit] et pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406
Title:: Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite codex formed of three separate parts (ff. 1-11; 12-35, and 36-85). ff. 1r-11v: Prayer and devotional texts. ff. 12r-35v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis.' ff. 36r-86r: Devotional texts including Richard Roll...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v
Title:: Prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: Collection of prayers and devotional texts, beginning with the Lord's prayer, incipit: 'Fadir ours þat ast in hevenes.' Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:: Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:: ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2407
Title:: Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2409
Title:: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2415
Title:: Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2417
Title:: John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2420
Title:: John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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