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191. Harley MS 5751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5751
Title:
A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-327r: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders, containing guides to confession and penance, practice translations into English (f. 146r), beginning ‘Grammatica vel Grammatice est literalis sciencia radix omni scienciarum cum qua omnia sine qua nichi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

192. Harley MS 5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5768
Title:
New Testament Epistles, Revelation, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: New Testament Epistles (ff. 1r-39r) and Revelation (ff. 39v-82v) in Middle English, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 83r-84r: A Middle English translation of Matthew 5:1-17, beginning: 'and ihesu seynge þe peple wente up into an hil and whane he was sett: his discipl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

193. Harley MS 5908/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5908/1
Title:
Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf

194. Harley MS 6333/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6333/1
Title:
Oone of Foure; calendar with English lections from the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:
This is the first part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the second volume is Harley MS 6333/2). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

195. Harley MS 6333/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6333/2
Title:
Pauline Epistles to Apocalypse, and Gospel lections, in the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:
This is the second part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the first volume is Harley MS 6333/1). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

196. Harley MS 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6573
Title:
Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2). Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

197. Harley MS 6579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6579
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-140r: Walter Hilton (d. 1396), an Austin monk at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, The Scale of Perfection.Beginning: 'Ghostly sister in ihesu crist I preie þe þat in þe calling whilke oure lord hath callid þe to his servise: þou halde þe paied and stond stedfastly þerinne'; opening...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

198. Harley MS 6613

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6613
Title:
Lanterne of Light
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1409-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

199. Harley MS 6615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6615
Title:
The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

200. Harley MS 6628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6628
Title:
St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis; Duns Scotus, Commentary on Lombard's Sententiae (excerpt); Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum; Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus; Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum; Decretum abbreviatum; Werner von Schussenried, Decretum versificatum; Auctoritates Aristotelis (fl...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus. ff. 3r-37r: Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Prior of the the Benedictine abbey of Melk (r. 1418-1423), Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum (‘Biblia versificata’). ff. 39r-183r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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