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421. Harley MS 5430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5430
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3*r-7*r: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 1r-4v: Magna Carta. ff. 4v-6r: The Charter of the Forest (1217). ff. 6r-12v: The Statute of Malborough (1267). ff. 12v-14r: The Statute of Merton (1236). ff. 14r-17r: The Statute of Gloucester (1278). ff. 17r-28r: Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

422. Harley MS 5444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5444
Title:
Votive masses; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis; William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Jacobus de Lausanne, Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and Job
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts that were separately produced and joined together at a later point, possibly in the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) is a single booklet with votive masses that was commissioned by Alicia Lygh (d. in or after 1525) of Chippenham, Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-1503
Extent:
1 volume

423. Harley MS 5751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5751
Title:
A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-327r: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders, containing guides to confession and penance, practice translations into English (f. 146r), beginning ‘Grammatica vel Grammatice est literalis sciencia radix omni scienciarum cum qua omnia sine qua nichi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

424. Harley MS 5767

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5767
Title:
Gospels of Luke and John in the later Wyclifitte version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113r: The Gospels of Luke (ff. 1r-63v) and John (ff. 63v-113r) in the later Wyclifitte version. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 113v: Latin notes with numerals, added in the 15th century. f. 1*verso: An inscription: 'Mem[orandum] compare this with Hampol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

425. Harley MS 5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5768
Title:
New Testament Epistles, Revelation, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: New Testament Epistles (ff. 1r-39r) and Revelation (ff. 39v-82v) in Middle English, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 83r-84r: A Middle English translation of Matthew 5:1-17, beginning: 'and ihesu seynge þe peple wente up into an hil and whane he was sett: his discipl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

426. Harley MS 5908/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5908/1
Title:
Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf

427. Harley MS 5977

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5977
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
9th century - 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

428. Harley MS 6041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6041
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

429. Harley MS 6333/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6333/1
Title:
Oone of Foure; calendar with English lections from the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:
This is the first part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the second volume is Harley MS 6333/2). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

430. Harley MS 6333/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6333/2
Title:
Pauline Epistles to Apocalypse, and Gospel lections, in the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:
This is the second part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the first volume is Harley MS 6333/1). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

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