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101. Harley MS 1704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1704
Title:
Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

102. Harley MS 1724

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1724
Title:
Book of accounts of charges of the work at Wark on Tweed Castle for the period 1542-1543
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-166r: Book of accounts of charges of the work at Wark on Tweed Castle for the period 1542-1543.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1542-1543
Extent:
1 volume

103. Harley MS 1730

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1730
Title:
Wycliffite sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The manuscript contains a few additions: Margi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 1740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1740
Title:
Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

105. 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

106. Harley MS 1845

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1845
Title:
Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, containing English saints such as Wulfstan, Milburga (in red), Oswald of Worchester, David, Cedd, Edward the Martyr (Death and Translation), Cuthbert, Guthlac, Ælfheah, Deposition and Translation of Erkenwald (both in red), John of Beverley, Dunstan, St Ethelbert ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. Harley MS 1862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1862
Title:
Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

108. Harley MS 1896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1896
Title:
Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles, and the Athanasian Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles and the Athanasian Creed. Decoration: 2 full borders in colours and gold with foliate decoration and gold balls and historiated initials at the beginning of Psalms 1, 109 (ff. 1r, 78v). 5 3-sided...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

109. Harley MS 2169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2169
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript contains a collection of arms compiled in the time of Henry VI or Edward IV. The collection focuses on English arms, as is indicated by its opening pages which feature verses on and drawings of William of Normandy (f. 1r), King Henry V (f. 2r), and King Henry VI (f. 3r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

110. Harley MS 2182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2182
Title:
The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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