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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6641
Title:: Jack Upland
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Jack Upland. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), A note 'On the preface to Urry's edition of Chaucer'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6644
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 2r-2v: A table of contents for Magna Carta. ff. 4r-10v: Magna Carta de Libertatibus Angliae. ff. 10v-13v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 13v-18r: Statuta de Merton. ff. 18r-29v: Statuta de Marleberge. ff. 29v-55r: The Statute of W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1285-c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6718
Title:: Collection of sermons; tract on the Pater Noster from William of Nassyngton’s Speculum Vitae; treatise on making testaments
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts that were produced separately in England in the 15th century. Part 1 (ff. 2-15) contains a collection of Latin sermons with occasional quotations in Middle English. Part 2 (ff. 16-33), contains a Middle English verse commentary on th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6814
Title:: Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1435-1653
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6816
Title:: A collection of English medical texts
Scope & Content:: This collection predominantly features medical texts in Latin and English. It contains a section (ff. 97r-133v) of Middle English recipes that ends with Latin prayers against the plague and an indenture from Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, suggesting that the recipes may originate from this ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6824
Title:: A compilation of early modern historical and scientific papers; Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a compilation of different historical and scientific papers, mostly originating from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. It also contains a 15th-century copy of the Middle English The Master of Game, composed by Edward of Norwich (b. c. 1373, d. 1415), 2nd Duke of York, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, English, Middle, French, Greek, Ancient, Latin, Malay, and Russian
Date Range:: c 1400-1738
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6923
Title:: Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-117v: Prick of Conscience. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title and contents page, where the work is attributed to ‘St Richard Roll Commonly call[e]d Hampole of Hampole near Doncaster, who dyed, anno 1349’, added in the 16th century. Decoration: Small ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7184
Title:: John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:: Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7322
Title:: Collections of Latin sermons, theological excerpts, moralized tales, moral discourses and expositions on biblical citations
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*verso: Latin sermons. ff. 1r-12v: A collection of theological excerpts attributed to Augustine of Hippo; Bernard of Clairvaux; Bede the Venerable; Isidore of Seville; Jerome; Ambrose; Caesarius of Arles; Gregory the Great; Origen; John Chrysostom; and Seneca. Beginning...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7358
Title:: Collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: A collection of theological, liturgical and computistical notes, mnemonic verses and prayers, almost entirely in Latin; featuring a drawing of the pontifical cross and drawings of mnemonic hands (f. 1r); a note about the Virgin Mary (f. 1r); the Sacraments (ff. 2r-2v); a n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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