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81. Harley MS 614

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 614
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-242r: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa. Decoration: 1 historiated initial of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child with a bar-border and sprays with foliate motifs in gold and colours (f. 5r). 2 decorated initials ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 629

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 629
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A table of contents with an introduction, beginning: 'This booke was compilid by Iohn lidgate monke of Bury at the excitacion and steryng of oure worshipful Prince kyng herry the fifthe. in the honour glorie and worshippe of the birthe of the most glorious maide wife and m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

83. Harley MS 661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 661
Title:
John Hardyng, Chronicle in verse (second version)
Scope & Content:
This richly-decorated manuscript contains the second version of John Hardyng's verse Chronicle. It also includes a map of Scotland and genealogical trees of the kings of England and France. Contents: ff. 1r-186r: John Hardyng, Chronicle in verse. ff. 188v-189r: Seven stanzas rhyme royal vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

85. Harley MS 875

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 875
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: a title ‘VERBA (?) [LATINA]’. f. 1*verso: Latin excerpts (partially legible) from an etymological dictionary. One excerpt (‘Delubra diceba[n]t[ur] [ve]t[er]es templa fontes h[aben]cia in quibus an[te] i[n]g[re]ssu[m] [diluebantur] un[de] diceban[tur] delubra a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

86. Harley MS 937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 937
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. It was apparently made for the sons of a northern noble family. This is the only known surviving almanac of its kind written in Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430-1431
Extent:
10 folios, folded into six parts.

87. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

88. Harley MS 941, f 26v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, f 26v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (six recipes). Title underlined in red 'For passey or þe failyng yvyl', incipit: 'Ys gode to drynk ys own / water ix daes et in quantity'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

89. Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v
Title:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

90. Harley MS 941, ff 24r-25r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 24r-25r
Title:
John Lydgate, Dietary
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Dietary; incipit: 'For helth of þe body cover frome cold þe hed / Ete no raw mete take gode hede þerito', explicit: 'to indifferent rycheft and dietari / Explicit concilium corporis et anime / Explicit dietarys particularis'. Edited in John Lydgate, Minor Poems, ed. by H. N. MacC...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

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