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1. Harley MS 433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 433
Title:
A collection of papers from the Signet Office, containing registers of grants, diplomatic correspondence and financial records related to the Crown, from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains registers with abstracts of grants that passed the Signet Office, the king’s personal seal, during the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and related materials. The latter include a list of office holders at the death of Edward IV, a list of the fees due to officers on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463-c 1547
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 554
Title:
Vita Vidualis, a Middle English translation of Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A Latin title inscription: 'Vita Vidualis'. ff. 2r-37r: A Middle English translation of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale [The Book on the Life of the Widow](Florence, c. 1490-1500); introduced as follows: ‘Here folowithe the boke of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1490s
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 955
Title:
Devotional book with prayers, indulgences and religious instructions
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Office of the Dead, use of Syon; with English saints listed in the Litany (ff. 8v-11v). ff. 27r-28v: Stabat Mater, with a rubric offering indulgences: 'In honore beate marie virginis magna indulgencia concess a bonefacio papa hanc oracionem dicentibus'; beginning: 'Sal[...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 1710

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1710
Title:
A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390 - c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 7398/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/2
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-359r: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 145r-150v), imperfect. The Calendar has various later 15th-century additions, including the feast days of Sts Cadoc, Anasasia, Cyriac and Julitta, Desiderius, Etheldreda, Louis of France, Mathurin of Larchant, Osmund and his ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume