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151. 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

152. Harley MS 3486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3486
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

153. Harley MS 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3490
Title:
Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

154. Harley MS 3655

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3655
Title:
Registrum Brevium from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 8r-199v: Registrum Brevium for the reign of King Richard II, beginning with a table of contents (ff. 8r-9v), entitled: 'Calendar brevium realium'. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Memorandum of Robert de la Mare, Lord of Llangennith in the Gower, Swansea, Sout...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

155. Harley MS 3657

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3657
Title:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-221v: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; with a table of contents on ff. 1r-2r; featuring some 15th-century marginal annotations in Latin. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 222r-222v: Notes on canon law [including the subjects of cemeteries and burials], beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

156. Harley MS 3818

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3818
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Table of contents. ff. 2v-16v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 17r-25r: Magna Carta. ff. 25r-29r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 29v-34r: Statutum de Merton. ff. 34r-45v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 45v-68v: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum. ff. 68v-74r: Statutum G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

157. Harley MS 3823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3823
Title:
Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Latin notes on the Old Testament, beginning: 'Frater ambrosius etcaetera'. ff. 50r-407v: Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: 'Quoniam ut ait sapiens, peccantem uirum inuoluet laqueus'; Latin sermons with verses in early medieval English on ff. 129r, 182v, 183r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

158. Harley MS 3831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3831
Title:
Collection of sayings, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1r-20r: A collection of sayings, anti-clerical, anti-drunkenness invectives, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

159. Harley MS 3846

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3846
Title:
Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotorum regis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum; Vita Sancti Oswaldi; poem on St Oswald; Henry of Sawtry, Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii; a genealogy of kings, excerpts from chronicles and a political poem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-147 and ff. 149-196) that were written, respectively, in the first and second half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 2r-70r: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis. ff. 71r-85r: Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

160. Harley MS 3862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3862
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 2574; for an edition of the text, see A Critical Edition (1961)]; beginning: 'O Thoughtful hert plonged in gret dystresse / with slombre of slowth thys long wynters nyght'; ending: 'To þe seru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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