381. Harley MS 4292
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382. Harley MS 4294
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4294
- Title:
- Hugh of Campden, Sidrak and Bokkus
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sidrak and Bokkus, a Middle English translation by Hugh of Campden of the long rhymed French Sidrac; imperfect at the end; beginning: 'If þat þou vundestonde can / Haþ vij chambrez and no moo' (edited by Burton, Sidrak and Bokkus (1998-1999); see also IMEV 772; NIVEM 772; ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
383. Harley MS 4344
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4344
- Title:
- A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-76r: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and again from 1470-1471) beginning: 'Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion [dice]batur'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 76v: A fragment of th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
384. Harley MS 4349
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4349
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Collection of Medical and Cosmetic Recipes and short Medical Treatises; circa 1510. Middle English. Copies. The MS. includes a collection of medical recipes (ff. 5-12v, 13-222v, 249-249v; item 1), short medical treatises (ff. 223-248; item 2) and cosmetic recipes (ff. 258v-260v, 262v-266; ite...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1505-1515
- Extent:
- 1 item
385. Harley MS 4486
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4486
- Title:
- A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
- Scope & Content:
- Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1350-1631
- Extent:
- 148 folios.
386. Harley MS 4690
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4690
- Title:
- The Brut Chronicle; 'Richard Coer de Lion'
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Middle English translation of the Brut Chronicle from French by John Mandeville in 1435. It also includes a poem in Middle English verse known as 'Richard Coer de Lion'. Contents: ff. 4r-108r: The so-called 'Peculiar version' of the Brut ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
387. Harley MS 4733
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4733
- Title:
- Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
388. Harley MS 4763
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4763
- Title:
- Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; poem in praise of Henry V
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-275r: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; treatise including state letters and other documents concerning the right of England to France, and literary works such as an excerpt from the Somnium viridarii, Chapter 186 (ff. 35r-41r); the Bucolicum carmen XII [...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
389. 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
390. Harley MS 4789
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4789
- Title:
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume