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521. 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

522. 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

523. 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

524. 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

525. 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

526. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

527. Harley MS 4890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4890
Title:
The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93r: The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version with a table of lections (ff. 1r-8r). Decoration: Large (5-line) 'Champ' initials in gold in frames with blue and purple grounds, with foliate extensions, at the beginning of each book. Large (3-line) initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

528. Harley MS 4930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4930
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

529. Harley MS 4971

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971
Title:
Grammatical, legal, and philosophical tracts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

530. Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128
Title:
Le Manuel des pechiez
Scope & Content:
ff. 93r–127v: William of Waddington, Le Manuel des pechiez (after f. 120v, 1305 lines are missing). Includes an inserted sermon in 122 stanzas (f. 123v), ‘Deu le omnipotent’ (Dean 199, nos. 635, 599). f. 127v: Names of knights of the Round Table, from Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

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