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411. Harley MS 5144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5144
Title:
Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254r: Year Book, containing the Term reports in Law French for the reigns of King Henry IV (years 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14) and King Henry V (years 9, 2 and 1). The manuscript contains a few later additions from the late 15th or early 16th century: f. 1*verso: Medical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

412. Harley MS 5146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5146
Title:
Tenurae; Natura Brevium; Novelli Tenores
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of collections of legal cases written in Latin and French. It also contains a previously unidentified stanza from the Middle English poem The Court of Sapience, usually attributed to John Lydgate, but here assigned to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem has only been ide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1483
Extent:
1 volume

413. Harley MS 5233

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5233
Title:
Nova Statuta
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Nova Statuta (ff. 11r-338v), preceded by an added collection of legal documents including ordinances and oaths of several officials (ff. 1v-10v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1436-c 1461
Extent:

1 volume

414. Harley MS 5233, ff 1v-10v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5233, ff 1v-10v
Title:
Statutes, ordinances, and oaths
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v-5v: An ordinance, incipit: 'H. Custodibus pacis omne ac Iustitie omnis… Quandam ordinacionem in ultimo parliamento nostro apud Westmisterum quarto die Novembris ultimo preterito tento de avisamento et assensu dominorum spiritualium et temporalium…vobis scripti facimus in hec verba: item t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1461
Extent:
10 folios, followed by 18 blank leaves.

415. Harley MS 5259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5259
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage from David to Christ; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Gesta Romanorum; featuring three Middle English couplets on f. 60v. f. 125v: A notes on the duty of confession, excerpted from the Summa de matrimonio (Compendium on Marriage) of Raymond of Peñafort. f. 125v: A Latin text on the allegorical meaning of the signs of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

416. Harley MS 5272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5272
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (verse), imperfect at the beginning. ff. 99r-104v: The Life of St Dorothy (verse). ff. 105r-137v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; ending with the colophon 'This endith without bost / The abbey of the holigost'. Decoration: Blue initials w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

417. Harley MS 5289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5289
Title:
Missal for monastic use, including a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 9r-493r: Missal for monastic use, including a calendar (ff. 2-7v), highlighting the feasts of the Deposition of St Cuthbert (f. 3r) and St Oswald (f. 5v) in gold; and musical notation (ff. 274r-276r; 285v-286r). The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1r: An inscription b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

418. Harley MS 5396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5396
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1470
Extent:
1 item

419. Harley MS 5398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5398
Title:
Collection of religious texts, including Richard Rolle, De modo vivendi; sermons by Johannis Schyrborn, John Haynton, and Rainold of Gloucester; Tract on the Ten Sibyls; Speculum peccatoris; Richard of Saint-Victor, Benjamin minor; Formula Dictaminis; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum conscientiae, Contemplationes de passione Christi, Epistola de honestate morum, Meditiationes de miseria humane conditiones, and De ingratitudine
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: Poem on the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac: Est aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo / Libra que scorpio architenens capra urna que pisces / Semper quindenis ponuntur signa kalendis'; followed by a prose explanation on the Signs of the Zodiac. f. 2r: Mnemonic verse on the Kalenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

420. Harley MS 5401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5401
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical and Culinary Compendium; 2nd half of the 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Partly copies. The MS. mainly contains medical and culinary treatises and recipes, which include: - a) John Arderne, Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-77v; item 1); - b) Treatise on uroscopy (ff. 94-94v; item 9); - c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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