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331. Harley MS 917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 917
Title:
A prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Psalm 96:6-Psalm 98; with an antiphon, beginning: ‘Gaude virgo maria cuntis hereses sola interemisti in universo mundo’. ff. 3r-5r: A prayer to Christ (beginning: ‘Domine deus pater ominpotens rex creator celi et tere’), introduced by the rubric: ‘Quicumque dixerit hanc o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

332. Harley MS 930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 930
Title:
Modus tenendi parliamentum (in English); Treaty of Troyes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the earliest surviving copies of the Modus tenendi parliamentum (Method of Holding Parliaments), a 14th-century work that outlines an idealised version of English parliamentary procedure. The volume also contains an imperfect copy of the Treaty of Troyes, an agree...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

333. Harley MS 940

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 940
Title:
Middle English translations of the Pauline Epistles; Acts of the Apostles; Catholic Epistles; and Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Middle English translations of the biblical books of the Pauline Epistles to the Revelations, from the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible. Contents: ff. 2r-97v: The Pauline Epistles, begins imperfectly with the Epistle to the Romans. ff. 98r-147v: The Acts of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

334. Harley MS 950

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 950
Title:
Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises two separate early 16th-century collections of medical recipes (ff. 1r-75v; ff. 80r-179v). A few other recipes were added later in the 16th century (ff. 76r-79v). The recipes in the main collection were numbered in the margin '1-497' by a later reader. Contents: Part ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

335. Harley MS 953

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 953
Title:
Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of more than fifty extant copies of the Pore Caitif, a late 14th-century Middle English compilation of religious instructions for the laity. The compilation includes tracts on the Apostles' Creed, Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, the virtues of Patience, Temptation, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

336. Harley MS 955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 955
Title:
Devotional book with prayers, indulgences and religious instructions
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Office of the Dead, use of Syon; with English saints listed in the Litany (ff. 8v-11v). ff. 27r-28v: Stabat Mater, with a rubric offering indulgences: 'In honore beate marie virginis magna indulgencia concess a bonefacio papa hanc oracionem dicentibus'; beginning: 'Sal[...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

337. Harley MS 959

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 959
Title:
The Cloud of Unknowing
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A cancelled leaf from The Cloud of Unknowing. ff. 3r-123v: The Cloud of Unknowing, ending with the colophon: 'laus deo et honor / prey for the wryter / Qui nominatur Walterus ffytzherbert'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1r: A note stating that: 'Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

338. Harley MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 984
Title:
The Gospel of Matthew (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-71v: The Gospel of Matthew in Middle English, imperfect at the beginning and end due to the loss of folios; ff. 7r-7v, 56r-56v and 64r-64v have been supplied in the 17th century to substitute lost text and appear to have been copied from the Coverdale Bible. The manuscript co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

339. Harley MS 992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 992
Title:
A collection of heraldic texts and drawings
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains heraldic texts and drawings from the 2nd half of the 15th century and 1st half of the 16th century in Middle English, Middle French and Latin. Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Drawings of arms of aristocratic families, several in colours; with family names in English. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

340. Harley MS 993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 993
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection; Treatise of Discretion of Spirits
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection, English translation of a work by written by the Aragonese Franciscan Luis de Fontibus (fl. 1383-1394); beginning: ‘Heere bigynneþ a tretis of viij chapitres necessarie for men þat ʒiven hem to perfection . whiche was founden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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