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71. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

72. Harley MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 271
Title:
The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

73. Harley MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273
Title:
Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1349
Extent:

1 volume

74. Harley MS 326

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 326
Title:
Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV; Romance of the Three Kings' Sons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV (Edward IV's descent from Rollo). For an edition of the text, see Radulescu 2003. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Here be gynnyt the petegreu of þe kyng þt now ys'. Incipit (f. 1r): 'This breff tretis is compyled for to bryng The peple oute of doute þt h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1485
Extent:

1 volume

75. Harley MS 372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 372
Title:
John Lydgate, The Life of St Edmund and St Fremund; Advice to an old gentleman who wished for a young wife; John Lydgate, The Kings of England; John Lydgate, Complaint þat Crist maketh of his Passioun; Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite; Sir Richard Roos, La Belle Dame sans Mercy; John Lydgate, Prayer on the Five Joys of the Virgin Mary; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes; anonymous prayers and poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: John Lydgate, The Life of St Edmund and St Fremund. ff. 45r-51r: Advice to an old gentleman who wished for a young wife, ‘A philisophre a good clerk seculer’. ff. 51r-53v: John Lydgate, The Kings of England (revised edition). ff. 54r-55r: John Lydgate, Complaint þat ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

76. Harley MS 442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 442
Title:
A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–182v: A collection of royal proclamations by Kings Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII, followed by an index (ff. 182r–v). f. 1r: notes by Peter le Neve. ff. 2r–v: A proclamation for the raising of the price of silver bullion, from 29 s the pound weight to 33 s the pound weight, 13 Augu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

77. Harley MS 494

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 494
Title:
Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1535
Extent:

1 volume

78. Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525
Title:
The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

79. Harley MS 542

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 542
Title:
English historical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

80. Harley MS 565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 565
Title:
Chronicle of London; an English poem on the expedition of Henry V into France; John Lydgate, King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A list of the kings of England, from Alfred [Aelfred] (b. 848/9, d. 899), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons, to Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine. Title (f. 1r): 'Nomina Regum & quot Annis regnarunt'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:

1 volume

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