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401. Harley MS 2257

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2257
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete 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 6208...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

402. Harley MS 2258

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2258
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle (shorter version)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 31r-315r: John Hardyng, Chronicle (shorter version), preceded by an alphabetical list of terms occurring in the chronicle.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

403. Harley MS 2259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2259
Title:
Richard Strangways, Tractatus nobilis de lege et exposicione armorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: An introduction and table of contents, beginning ‘Pensa, Successor, in tui cordis oraculo de primo Predecestore, qui hoc nobile ex pluribus libris aggregatum si dici possit non minus se ipso predilexit’. ff. 7v-10r: Lists of names of nobility that came with William the Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1455
Extent:
1 volume

404. Harley MS 2260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2260
Title:
William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-183v: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae (Mirror of Life); Middle English translation with marginal headings in Latin; imperfect at the beginning (DIMEV 423-29). Decoration: Numerous 2-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

405. Harley MS 2261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2261
Title:
An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

406. Harley MS 2266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2266
Title:
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. This is the earliest of one of the two English translations of the Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum, a Latin version of an Arabic compilation by the philosopher Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik. The Latin work was translated into...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

407. Harley MS 2268

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2268
Title:
Collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite and miscellaneous volume possibly put together for Thomas Spofford, abbot of St Mary's abbey at York (el. 1405) and bishop of Hereford (el. 1421), who retired at St Mary's Abbey in 1448 and died there in 1456 (see O'Mara, Four Middle English Sermons (2002), pp. 19-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

408. Harley MS 2270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

409. Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v
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:
109 paper leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2270

410. Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274
Title:
A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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