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101. Harley MS 2341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2341
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-13r: Calendar featuring English saints; and with Thomas Becket's name inked out; featuring a rhyme in English on the number of days in twelve months (f. 3r), written in the same hand as the rest of the calendar: 'Thirti dayes hath November / April, June, and September / Of xxvi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

102. 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

103. Harley MS 6041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6041
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 2202

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2202
Title:
A miscellany of English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

105. Harley MS 4027

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4027
Title:
New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181r: New Testament, in the later Wycliffite version (c. 1380), including the Gospels of Matthew (ff. 1r-22r), Mark (ff. 22r-36v), Luke (ff. 36v-61v), and John (ff. 61v-79v); Pauline Epistles (ff. 79r-130v); Acts of the Apostles (ff. 130v-146r); Catholic Epistles (ff. 146r-167...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

106. Harley MS 5289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5289
Title:
Missal for monastic use, including a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 9r-493r: Missal for monastic use, including a calendar (ff. 2-7v), highlighting the feasts of the Deposition of St Cuthbert (f. 3r) and St Oswald (f. 5v) in gold; and musical notation (ff. 274r-276r; 285v-286r). The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1r: An inscription b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. Harley MS 6571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6571
Title:
Book for a Simple and Devout Woman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman, beginning: ‘Seynt Johon þe evangelist in his boke of pryvytes telleþ þat he saw a wondirful and a degysed beste come out of þe see þat haddde a body like to a libarde . ffeet as hit were of a bere prote as hit were of alyon and he hadde ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

108. Harley MS 2371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2371
Title:
John Mirk, Festial
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-141v: John Mirk, Festial (Group B version); beginning imperfectly towards the end of Advent and ending imperfectly with the opening of the Dedication of the Church; the sermon for the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been largely cut out (see ff. 73*-[73c]), and the remaini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

109. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

110. Harley MS 3831

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3831
Title:
Collection of sayings, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1r-20r: A collection of sayings, anti-clerical, anti-drunkenness invectives, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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