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281. Harley MS 2391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2391
Title:
Collection of sermons, exempla and didactic works in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prognostications for Christmas day and subsequent days (Latin). ff. 2r-133r: John Mirk, Festial, Middle English sermons from Advent to St Katherine. ff. 133r-133v: The Nine Virtues, shown by God to a ‘gud and a hely man’. f. 134r: The Ten Commandments, here entitled ‘D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

282. Harley MS 2392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2392
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

283. Harley MS 2394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2394
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-129r: Prick of Conscience; imperfect at the beginning: loss of text on ff. 1-7 due to damage to folios; ff. 128r-129r have been substituted for lost leaves in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 77r: A Middle English verse, ‘After my warkes deme no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

284. Harley MS 2396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2396
Title:
Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78v: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels, beginning incompletely in the epistle sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, and ending with the Friday gospel sermon for the 5th week after the Octave of Epiphany. For a detailed list of sermo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

285. Harley MS 2397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2397
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, The Mixed Life, and Bonum Est
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (Book II). ff. 73r-85r: Walter Hilton, The Mixed Life. ff. 85v-94r: Walter Hilton, Bonum Est (a commentary on Psalm 91). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-4*v, 95-98v: Fragments of a 14th-century liturgical manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

286. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

287. Harley MS 2399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2399
Title:
Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:
The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1625
Extent:
1 item

288. Harley MS 2402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2402
Title:
A grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174v: an anonymous grammatical treatise in Latin and Middle English. Decoration: Rubrics and underlining in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

289. Harley MS 2403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2403
Title:
John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191r: John Mirk, Festial; including verses on f. 151r (Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin); and f. 13r (Seven lines, ‘Wherfor pray we to hym to make us studfast yn our fay’); ending with the verses ‘Mentem sanctam [habuit], spontaneam [mortem sustinuit], honorem deo [dedit] et pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 2406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2406
Title:
Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite codex formed of three separate parts (ff. 1-11; 12-35, and 36-85). ff. 1r-11v: Prayer and devotional texts. ff. 12r-35v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis.' ff. 36r-86r: Devotional texts including Richard Roll...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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