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61. Harley MS 574

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 574
Title:
Year Book of King Henry IV, 1409/10
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Year Book of King Henry IV; the Michaelmas and Hilary terms of the year 1409/10. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto: A prayer ‘Jhesus help me Amen’; written in the 15th century. f. 101v: A price: 'xvs vd [? et] vjs xjd'; added in the 15th or 16th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French
Date Range:
1409-1410
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 577
Title:
Narrationes placitorum veterum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-64r: Narrationes placitorum veterum, in French. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 12r and f. 65r: A Middle English prayer, ‘Jhesu Cryst lady helpe’; written in the 15th or 16th century. ff. 63v-64r: Account of payments; added in the early 17th century. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 586
Title:
Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts. The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century. The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 651, ff 192-196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:
Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 651

65. Harley MS 674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 674
Title:
Treatise of Discretion of Spirits; The Epistle of Discretion; The Epistle of Prayer; The Cloud of Unknowing; The Book of Privy Counselling; Benjamin Minor; Denis Hid Divinity
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 is one of the two manuscripts which contains all seven works that are attributed to the anonymous author (the ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

67. Harley MS 726

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 726
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-530v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Henry VI (25, 27-29, 31, 32 Henry VI).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

68. Harley MS 753

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 753
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (Extended Version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (Extended Version to 1430), including a poem by John Page (fl. 1418–1422), 'The Siege of Rouen'. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 90r: 'Item lent to mestres Boweyarr one pell of yuarne wylliam Satyllar […] ij bollys 1 was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 817

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 817
Title:
Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-236r: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1v-3v and 236v-239r: Annotations on the text and explanations of various terms, featuring a Middle English inscription that seems to have accompanied a map of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 838

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 838
Title:
Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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