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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2341
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-13r: Calendar featuring English saints; and with Thomas Becket's name inked out; featuring a rhyme in English on the number of days in twelve months (f. 3r), written in the same hand as the rest of the calendar: 'Thirti dayes hath November / April, June, and September / Of xxvi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2343
Title:: Collection of Middle English tracts of religious instruction, including the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the Apostle's Creed, and the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: The Lords Prayer, beginning: 'In þe name of þe fadir and of þe sone and of þe holi goost amen'. ff. 1r-1v: The Ave Maria, beginning: 'Heil marie ful of grace'. ff. 1v-2r: The Apostles Creed, beginning: 'I bileve into god fadir almy[g]ti make of hevene and of erþe'. ff. 2r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2346
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae; collection of Latin sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments; treatise on the division of the Ten Commandments; De decem Plagis et decem Praeceptis; The Long Charter of Christ; Bernart Amoros, Speculum Sacerdotum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany of three parts (ff. 1r-11v; ff, 12r-33v; ff, 34r-72v) that have been written at the end of the 14th century and in the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae (here with the added title De gradus contemplationis), b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1375-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2348
Title:: A collection of sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2*r-195v: A collection of 69 sermons in Latin, from the first Sunday of Advent to Pentecost. ff. 196r-196v: A table of contents in a 14th-century hand, listing the sermons contained in the manuscript with detail added in a later hand and the folio reference in yet another hand. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2371
Title:: John Mirk, Festial
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-141v: John Mirk, Festial (Group B version); beginning imperfectly towards the end of Advent and ending imperfectly with the opening of the Dedication of the Church; the sermon for the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been largely cut out (see ff. 73*-[73c]), and the remaini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2373
Title:: The Cloud of Unknowing, The Book of Privy Counselling, and other works by the same author
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of seventeen extant medieval copies of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guide on contemplative prayer and meditation from the second half of the 14th century. It contains five other works by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing: The Epistle of Discretion of Stirrings, Treat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2374
Title:: A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2380
Title:: Collection of medical recipes and charms, with four religious songs in Middle English
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Table of contents, beginning: 'Pro capite Dolor capitis [later addition] / For wert and vanite in þe hed', followed by additional entries by a 17th-century hand. ff. 6r-61v, 63v-64v. Collection of over 250 medical recipes in Middle English, inconsistently numbered (ff. 6-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2385
Title:: Middle English treatises and Latin sermons; Richard of Saint-Victor, Epistola ad Severinum de Caritate; Vita Secundi philosophi; a collection of miracles and exempla
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises five different parts that were produced separately in England. Part 1 (ff. 2r-8v) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. 11r-25v) was written around the mid or in the second half of the 15th century. Parts 3 (ff. 26r-31v) and 4 (ff. 32r-36v)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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