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211. Harley MS 2270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

212. Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
109 paper leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2270

213. Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274
Title:
A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

214. Harley MS 2274, f 57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, f 57v
Title:
Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem
Scope & Content:
Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem (Walther, Initia Carminum (1959), no. 6525; Thorndike and Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits (1963), column 561). Often attributed to John of Garland. Rubric: 'Hic incipit librum computo manulis'. Begins: 'Filius esto dei celum bonus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

215. Harley MS 2274, ff 35r-46v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 35r-46v
Title:
Now late me thought I would begin
Scope & Content:
Now late me thought I would begin (NIMEV 2347; DIMEV 3777). A lament of the Virgin Mary, in 72 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with the refrain, ‘Who can not wepe come lerne at me’. Other witnesses: - Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 423, ff. 192v-205r (includes five stanzas not in the pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
12 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

216. Harley MS 2274, ff 47r-50v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 47r-50v
Title:
Doom of Urine compendium (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Two short treatises (ff. 47r-48v, 48v-50v) relating to urine and uroscopy (eVK2 nos 2878.00 and 7764.00), possibly extracts from Henry Daniel, Dome of Uryns (Liber uricrisarium) (see Keiser, Works of Science (1998), p. 3661). The first treatise begins: 'In the begynnyng þu shalt take hede to 4 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Four leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

217. Harley MS 2274, ff 58r-62v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 58r-62v
Title:
Collection of astrological and prognostication texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of astrological and prognostication texts, with calendars and tables, mostly in Middle English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
5 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

218. Harley MS 2274, ff 63r-77v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274, ff 63r-77v
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum (fragment)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 221, and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
15 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

219. Harley MS 2276

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2276
Title:
Middle English sermon collection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Sixty sermons on the Sunday gospels, certain major feast-days in the Christmas season and Ascension, from the First Sunday in Advent to the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Translated from the 12th-century Latin Filius matris collection, with additional sermons not based on the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

220. Harley MS 2277

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2277
Title:
South English Legendary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

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