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1. Harley MS 5036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5036
Title:
Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 494

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 494
Title:
Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1535
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 6670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6670
Title:
Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 4800

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4800
Title:
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, Books 4-5
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, a Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis, incomplete, containing Book 4 (lacking chapters 41-66, the beginnings of chapters 7 and 67, the endings of chapters 6 and 40, and a folio with the middle of chapter 89) and Book 5, Chapte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2340

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2340
Title:
Collection of treatises on hawking, including the 'J. B. Treatise'
Scope & Content:
This pocket-sized manuscript contains a collection of three Middle English treatises on the subject of hawking, including a version of the so-called 'J. B. Treatise'. The text contains a hierarchy of hawks and owners (including the line, 'A kesterell for a knafe', f. 50r) as well as a final sect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2388
Title:
Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:
This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3432
Title:
The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4012
Title:
Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s-1470s
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 1764

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1764
Title:
The Knight of the Tower, an anonymous Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de La Tour Landry, by Geoffroy IV de la Tour-Landry
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only known surviving copy of the earlier Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de la Tour Landry by Geoffroy de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), known as The Knight of the Tower. This copy of the text is imperfect, with a catchword on f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume