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201. Harley MS 6644

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6644
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 2r-2v: A table of contents for Magna Carta. ff. 4r-10v: Magna Carta de Libertatibus Angliae. ff. 10v-13v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13v-18r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 18r-29v: Statuta de Marleberge. ff. 29v-55r: The Statute of W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1285-c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

202. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

203. Harley MS 6816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6816
Title:
A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:
This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:

1 volume

204. Harley MS 6824

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6824
Title:
A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:
c 1400-1738
Extent:
1 volume

205. Harley MS 7184

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7184
Title:
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

206. Harley MS 7333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7333
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

207. Harley MS 7398/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/1
Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

208. Harley Roll C 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll C 5
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry V of England
Scope & Content:
A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England through Brutus to Henry V (r. 1413-1422), consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The dorse contains a defence of the rights of Rich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 roll

209. Lansdowne MS 699

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 699
Title:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

210. Lansdowne MS 851

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 851
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, made shortly after his death, traditionally assigned to the year 1400. Contents: ff. 2r-12r: The General Prologue. ff. 12r-38v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 38v-39v: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 39v-47v: The Miller's Tale. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

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