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392. Harley MS 2181, f 94v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2181, f 94v
- Title:
- Extract from Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum; notes
- Scope & Content:
- This leaf contains an extract from Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum: - begins 'Pluribus est membris distincta figura loquele'; ends 'Qui dices requiem timeo vel spero laborem' (verses 2361-2379; opening lines of Chapter XII). The leaf also contains notes from the Medulla grammaticae, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- Single parchment leaf (verso), bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181
393. Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r
- Title:
- Medulla grammaticae
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- 86 parchment leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181
394. Harley MS 2182
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2182
- Title:
- The Prose Brut
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
395. Harley MS 2202
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2202
- Title:
- A miscellany of English prose and verse
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
396. Harley MS 2247
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2247
- Title:
- Sermons in Middle English
- Scope & Content:
- Sermons. Marginal notes in Latin are in a number of hands, principally that of the main scribe. One English note (f. 1v) is in the hand of a reader. Frequent underlining within the text, probably by the scribe, highlights quotations and important names. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-2r): First Sunday...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
397. Harley MS 2248
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2248
- Title:
- The Prose Brut
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-17r: A table of contents for the Prose Brut. ff. 19r-290v: The Prose Brut; the Common Version to 1419. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 18v: A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus'; added in a 15th-century hand. Decoration: Guide letters in ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
398. Harley MS 2249
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2249
- Title:
- Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testame...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
399. Harley MS 2254
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2254
- Title:
- Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
- 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 half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
400. Harley MS 2256
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2256
- Title:
- The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (common version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen'
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1-202v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (common version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen' (imperfect). Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold with acanthus leaves extending into the margins (f. 1r). Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flouri...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume