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61. Harley MS 554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 554
Title:
Vita Vidualis, a Middle English translation of Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A Latin title inscription: 'Vita Vidualis'. ff. 2r-37r: A Middle English translation of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale [The Book on the Life of the Widow](Florence, c. 1490-1500); introduced as follows: ‘Here folowithe the boke of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1490s
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 559

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 559
Title:
Collection of political prophecies
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Three prophecies in Latin verse (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, for the years 1550, 1553 and 1554. f. 2r A prophecy (Prophetia) written on 12 April 1554, Lilium regnans (Middle English). f. 2v: An explanation of allegories in Lilium regnans (Explanatio prophetie Ante de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1554
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 560

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 560
Title:
Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis; Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (excerpts), ‘Collectiones de vita et miraculis D. Johannis Berlaci [etc.]’. ff. 14v-43v: Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley (‘Liberates Ecclesiae sancti Johannis de Beverlie’); featuri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 562

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 562
Title:
Tractatus de mirabilibus urbis Romanae; indulgences and stations at Rome; itinerary from England to Rome; itinerary of Odoric of Pordenone
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Tractatus de mirabilibus urbis Romanae. ff. 6r-21r: Indulgences at the churches and stations of Rome ff. 21r-22v: Itinerary from England to Rome. ff. 22v-28v: Itinerary of Odoric of Pordenone to the East. Decoration: Small red initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 565
Title:
Chronicle of London; an English poem on the expedition of Henry V into France; John Lydgate, King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A list of the kings of England, from Alfred [Aelfred] (b. 848/9, d. 899), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons, to Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine. Title (f. 1r): 'Nomina Regum & quot Annis regnarunt'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:

1 volume

66. Harley MS 574

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 574
Title:
Year Book of King Henry IV, 1409/10
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Year Book of King Henry IV; the Michaelmas and Hilary terms of the year 1409/10. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto: A prayer ‘Jhesus help me Amen’; written in the 15th century. f. 101v: A price: 'xvs vd [? et] vjs xjd'; added in the 15th or 16th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French
Date Range:
1409-1410
Extent:
1 volume

67. Harley MS 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 577
Title:
Narrationes placitorum veterum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-64r: Narrationes placitorum veterum, in French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 12r and f. 65r: A Middle English prayer, ‘Jhesu Cryst lady helpe’; written in the 15th or 16th century. ff. 63v-64r: Account of payments; added in the early 17th century. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 586
Title:
Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts. The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century. The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 602
Title:
Register of St Albans Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added charters in Latin and English. f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r–95r: Miscellaneous register of St Albans Abbey, containing rentals, leases, acquittances etc., made before 1396.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

70. Harley MS 614

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 614
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa. Decoration: 1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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