Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English, Middle - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v
Title:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2668
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters: Medicine and Surgery: Sermons: Composite collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons: 15th cent., 1st half: Lat. and Enm: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2787
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Missal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation; damaged and beginning and ending imperfectly; beginning with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) with numerous English saints, including, in red: Wulstani, Edwardi, Cuthberte, Ricardi, Georgii, Dunstani, Aldelmi, translation of Edmund, Barn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2851
Title:: Collection of religious texts and goliardic poems, including Alan of Beverley, Tractatus metricus de Susanna, and Miracles of the Virgin
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Latin verses, beginning: 'Si bibit expedit ust sedem hauriat'. ff. 1r-1v: Geomantic verses. f. 1v: Poem, beginning: 'balnea cornici qui prodest vel meretrici'. f. 1v: Poem on the Cross. ff. 2r-9v: Alan of Beverley, 'Tractatus metricus de Susanna per fratrem Alanum monac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2862
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-62v: The Hours of the Virgin; imperfect. ff. 64r-80r: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 80r-90v: The Litany containing English saints, followed by various prayers to God. ff. 91r-93v: The Mass of St Gregory; imperfect. The introductory rubric is repeated ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2868
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Suffrage to St Barbara, with the rubric: ‘Quicumque factum sancte barbare animam celebraverit et cotidie hanc memoracionem et oracionem martirii eiusdem subsequentem bene et devote dixerit multa tormenta corporis per eius intercessionem evadet et absque confessione et vera...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2869
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-9v: Calendar (with English saints); featuring an Middle English note for determining the date of Ash Wednesday in February with the lunar calendar on f. 4v: ‘This is to weting þat þe furste wendisday in þe newe mone of feverȝer is ever more axwendisday’. ff. 10r-47v: The Hours...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2894
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 7r: Prayer to God: ‘[D]eus qui nos pastores in populo vocari voluisti. presta quesumus: ut per hec que humano ore dicimus. in tuis oculis esse valeamus. Per dominum nostrum iesum’. f. 8r: Prayer to God, beginning: ‘Omnipotens sempiterne deus meritis et precibus tue matris’. ff...
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2925
Title:: Expositio sequentiarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-92r: Expositio sequentiarum; imperfect due to loss of folios, with the first complete instruction beginning: 'ista sequencia cantatur secunda dominica adventus domini'; ending: 'Expliciunt Sequencie bene exposite'. ff. 92r-92v: A glossary, mainly in Latin but occasionally in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2946
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, including: 1. Temporale, incipit (rubric): 'Dominica prima adventus domini', including an office for the dedication of the church (f. 176v); ends imperfectly in 'lectio I' of the dedication of the church, explicit: 'Etiam fratres videte quam pulcrum est templum quod edif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1405
Extent:: 1 volume

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