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31. Harley MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 221
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a 15th-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 321....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

32. Harley MS 237

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 237
Title:
Theological miscellany, including Speculum Christiani
Scope & Content:
f. 1*r: Added table of contents, 17th-century. ff. 1r–2v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 3r–73v: Speculum Christiani. ff. 73v–75v: De horis canonicis, a note on how the canonical hours are to be said, beginning, ‘Hore canonice propter laudem humanum …’ Other copies in Royal MS 8 C I and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

33. Harley MS 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 266
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: The Brut Chronicle with a title in a 16th-century hand: 'A verie large Chronicle from the beginning of E.I perfect to anno quo H. 6'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: a title page written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), beginning: 'An Ancient a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 271
Title:
The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

35. Harley MS 272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 272
Title:
Wycliffite Bible, New Testament (Later Version)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–155v: New Testament, in the Wycliffite translation into Middle English (later version). Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 22r, 59r, 75r, 82v, 90r, 95r, etc.). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

36. Harley MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273
Title:
Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1349
Extent:

1 volume

37. Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v
Title:
Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever
Scope & Content:
Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
1 folio.

38. Harley MS 275

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 275
Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae, Incendium amoris, Commentarius in Iob seu Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes Piissimae; Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Jerome's translation of Origen’s Homilies on the Song of Songs; Speculum humanae salvationis; A Christmas Carol; A Latin treatise against divination and superstition; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological treatises in Latin and Middle English that was probably produced in a monastic environment. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae. ff. 12v-46r:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

39. Harley MS 279

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 279
Title:
Culinary treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Tables of contents for the manuscript’s culinary treatises. ff. 6r-26r: Potage Dyvers. ff. 27v-36r: Vyaunde Leche. ff. 37v-43v: Vyaunde Furnez. ff. 45r-49r: Menus for various feasts. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 44r: A table of contents for menus at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1430s
Extent:
1 volume

40. Harley MS 326

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 326
Title:
Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV; Romance of the Three Kings' Sons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV (Edward IV's descent from Rollo). For an edition of the text, see Radulescu 2003. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Here be gynnyt the petegreu of þe kyng þt now ys'. Incipit (f. 1r): 'This breff tretis is compyled for to bryng The peple oute of doute þt h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1485
Extent:

1 volume

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