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292. Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
- Title:
- Colletion of devotional texts
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 50 folios.
293. Harley MS 2407
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2407
- Title:
- Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
294. Harley MS 2409
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2409
- Title:
- Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
295. Harley MS 2415
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2415
- Title:
- Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
296. Harley MS 2417
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2417
- Title:
- John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
297. Harley MS 2420
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2420
- Title:
- John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
298. Harley MS 2421
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2421
- Title:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
299. Harley MS 2431
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2431
- Title:
- Breviary, with a York calendar and other liturgical texts
- Scope & Content:
- This breviary is a rare surviving example of a late medieval book that is known to have been used in (at least) two parish or local church settings: at the chapel of St Giles’s Hospital near Brompton-on-Swale, and slightly later in the chantry of St Giles, in the chapel of Ravensworth Castle, bo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
300. Harley MS 2436
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2436
- Title:
- Collection of sermons
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a 14th-century collection of sermons for saints' feast days (ff. 17r-168v), with sermons added in the 15th century at the beginning (ff. 1r-14v). Contents: ff. 1r-14v: A collection of sermons; with a previously unrecorded Middle English verse translation of Latin tex...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century-15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume