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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3952
Title:: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents. ff. 2r-105v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady. f. 105v: A poem on the death of King Edward IV, entitled ‘for the deth of king Edward the iiijth’; beginning ‘[In Ma]y whan every herte is lyghte’. The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 105v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3960
Title:: Cartulary of Melrose Abbey
Scope & Content:: f. ir: Fragment of a former flyleaf with inscription. f. 1r–109r: Cartulary, arranged topographically. Includes copies of numerous royal and occasional papal and episcopal charters throughout (with contemporary additions: ff. 65r–66v, 76v, 100r, 102r–109r). f. 110v: Added text of an indulgance...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1488-1490s
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4015
Title:: Cartulary of the Hospital of St Giles, Holborn
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: Added account of the founding of the Hospital of St Giles, in English. f. 1v: Added account of the events of 1125. f. 2r: Added donation charter. ff. 2v–3r: Contemporary table of contents, giving a list of parishes in the cartulary. f. 4r–v: Added donation charters. ff. 5r–205v: Cart...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1402
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4016
Title:: A cookery book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: The banquet for King Richard II, organised by John Fordham, Bishop of Durham, at Durham House, London, in 1387, ‘[T]his is the purviaunce made for King Richard being with þe Duc of lancastre at the Bisshoppes place of Durham at London the xxiij day of September the yere of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4027
Title:: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-181r: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version (c. 1380), including the Gospels of Matthew (ff. 1r-22r), Mark (ff. 22r-36v), Luke (ff. 36v-61v), and John (ff. 61v-79v); Pauline Epistles (ff. 79r-130v); Acts of the Apostles (ff. 130v-146r); Catholic Epistles (ff. 146r-167...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4172
Title:: Collection of theological texts, including the Sacerdos parochialis and De Festis Duplicibus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains various items that appear to have been compiled for the use of a priest. The first part (ff. 1r-63r) contains one of the seven extant copies of the Sacerdos parochialis, a manual for parish priests in Middle English and Latin, including tracts on the Pater noster, Ave Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4196
Title:: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4197
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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