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362. Harley MS 3840
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3840
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. The manuscript comprises a large herbal in Latin (ff. 1-138; item 1) and a Middle English herbal, known as Agnus castus (ff. 139-178v; item 2) with embedded recipes. The previous ownership, and the date an...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
363. Harley MS 3846
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3846
- Title:
- Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotorum regis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum; Vita Sancti Oswaldi; poem on St Oswald; Henry of Sawtry, Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii; a genealogy of kings, excerpts from chronicles and a political poem
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-147 and ff. 149-196) that were written, respectively, in the first and second half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 2r-70r: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis. ff. 71r-85r: Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotoru...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
364. Harley MS 3862
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3862
- Title:
- John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-107r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 2574; for an edition of the text, see A Critical Edition (1961)]; beginning: 'O Thoughtful hert plonged in gret dystresse / with slombre of slowth thys long wynters nyght'; ending: 'To þe seru...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
365. Harley MS 3869
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3869
- Title:
- John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
- Scope & Content:
- Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
366. Harley MS 3903
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3903
- Title:
- Job and Tobit in the later Wycliffite version
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-46v: The Book of Job in the later Wycliffite version. At the end, the scribe notes the manuscript's price: 'þe priis of þis book is vi.s. and viii d.' (f. 46v). ff. 47r-64v: The Book of Tobit in the later Wycliffite version. Decoration: 2 blue and pink large initials on a ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
367. Harley MS 3909
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3909
- Title:
- Life of Christ and the Feasts of the Church in Middle English verse
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Life of Christ and the Feasts of the Church in Middle English verse, begins imperfectly. Decoration: Small initials in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
368. Harley MS 3913
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3913
- Title:
- Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins; collection of theological extracts; Apocalips of Jesu Crist
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins, beginning: 'Daniel .5. Quando elevatum est cor Nabugor'. ff. 19r-111v: Collection of theological extracts with headings such as De homine; De preceptis datis; De casu primi hominis; De tribulacione, including passages from John Wyclif. ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
369. Harley MS 3943
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3943
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
370. Harley MS 3945
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3945
- Title:
- Prose Brut
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-117v: The Prose Brut; Common Version to 1333. Decoration: A large gilded initial with foliate decoration in the margin reaching down to the bas de page (f. 1r). Large (3-line) initials in red up to f. 41r; after that, empty spaces for initials have occasionally been filled w...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume