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171. Harley MS 3812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3812
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463
Extent:

5 folded folios.

172. Harley MS 3814 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A
Title:
Astronomical and astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1230-1399
Extent:
140 folios.

173. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v
Title:
Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Scope & Content:
Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
15 folios.

174. Harley MS 3862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3862
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 2574; for an edition of the text, see A Critical Edition (1961)]; beginning: 'O Thoughtful hert plonged in gret dystresse / with slombre of slowth thys long wynters nyght'; ending: 'To þe seru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

175. Harley MS 3869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3869
Title:
John Gower, Confessio amantis, Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, pageant verses, and some short Latin verse; Marian hymns in English and Latin
Scope & Content:
Confessio amantis by John Gower (d. 1408), along with his French Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz, and some of his short Latin verse. Also includes (in the hand of another scribe), pageant verses by John Lydgate and Marian hymns in English and Latin. Contents: ff. 2r–4v: John Lydgat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

176. Harley MS 3943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3943
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

177. Harley MS 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4011
Title:
An English miscellany including poems by John Lydgate; Craft of Dying; Duodecim Gradus Humilitatis; Counsels of Isidore; The Libel of English Policy; Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Anglie; John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth; John Russell, Book of Nurture
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: John Lydgate, So as the Crabbe Goth Forward; fragment. f. 1r: John Lydgate, All riȝtwisnes doþe now proced. ff. 1r-1v: John Lydgate, Translacyon by lydgate of Stans puer ad mensum. ff. 1v-2r: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Extract of Book III, here entitled: ‘Lenvoye t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

178. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation 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 Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

179. Harley MS 4260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4260
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-108r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady, in 6 books. f. 108r: A Latin verse prayer for the king, copied twice entirely, and once partially, attributed to ‘quod Clerk .J.’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1v: A Latin note about other copies of Lydgate’s Life of O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

180. Harley MS 4292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4292
Title:
Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1478-1540
Extent:

1 volume

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