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61. 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

62. Harley MS 1239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1239
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; a selection from The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, and a selection from The Canterbury Tales. The latter includes The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

63. Harley MS 1245

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1245
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; 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’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

64. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

65. Harley MS 1337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1337
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle, with a collection of prophecies attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Merlin and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (abbreviated version to 1419); ending with the explicit: 'Here endith a book callyd the Croniclis of Englonde made & compilid by notabil Clerkis of aventuris of kyngis þat were in þis londe and howe þey died' (f. 105r). The manuscript contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 1568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1568
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (Common version to 1419). Decoration: Historiated initial of King Diocletian and his daughters combined with a full bar border in colours and gold with floral decoration (f. 1r). Numerous historiated initials or small miniatures in colours and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

67. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

68. Harley MS 1605/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/3
Title:
The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1390-early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 1671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1671
Title:
The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 1701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1701
Title:
Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne; Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord and the Hours of the Passion; King Robert of Sicily; a mass against the plague
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Robert Mannyng [Robert Mannyng of Brunne] (d. in or after 1338), Handlyng Synne, a Middle English translation of the Anglo-Norman French Manuel des pechiez, attributed to William of Waddington (late 13th century) [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 778], enti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

1 volume

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