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181. Harley MS 7322

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7322
Title:
Collections of Latin sermons, theological excerpts, moralized tales, moral discourses and expositions on biblical citations
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*verso-2*verso: Latin sermons. ff. 1r-12v: A collection of theological excerpts attributed to Augustine of Hippo; Bernard of Clairvaux; Bede the Venerable; Isidore of Seville; Jerome; Ambrose; Caesarius of Arles; Gregory the Great; Origen; John Chrysostom; and Seneca. Beginning...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

182. Harley MS 683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 683
Title:
Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:
A schoolbook compiled from at least four pre-existing manuscripts, dating from the early 13th century (ff. 2–19), late 13th century (ff. 32–35, 36–62), and 14th century (ff. 20–31): f. 1r: Effaced page opening with the word ‘Debeat’ with a decorated six-line initial. f. 1v: Fragment of the Off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

183. Harley MS 2110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2110
Title:
Cartulary of Castle Acre Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 4*r–5*v: Fragment of Ælfric, Homilies, first series, for St John and St Stephen (1st half of the 11th century, Old English, written in insular minuscule); with a large initial and title in display capitals in red (f. 4*r); 220 × 150 mm. One bifolium, missing four lines of text in the upper p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

184. Harley MS 2181

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2181
Title:
Medulla grammaticae and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript comprises the Medulla grammaticae (ff. 9r-94r) with additional texts and notes (ff. 3r-8v, 94v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

185. Harley MS 930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 930
Title:
Modus tenendi parliamentum (in English); Treaty of Troyes (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the earliest surviving copies of the Modus tenendi parliamentum (Method of Holding Parliaments), a 14th-century work that outlines an idealised version of English parliamentary procedure. The volume also contains an imperfect copy of the Treaty of Troyes, an agree...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

186. Harley MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 48
Title:
Le Livre de l'Informacion des Princes, and other texts concerning the nobility
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An illegible Latin inscription. f. 1v: Two prayers to St George, beginning ‘Ave gemma anglie confors angelorum miles regis glorie spes que belatorum’; ‘Deus qui nos beati georgi martyris tui meritis et intercessione laetificas’; an unidentified Latin text (faded); with the n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

187. Harley MS 2333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2333
Title:
Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s Colle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

188. Harley MS 3909

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3909
Title:
Life of Christ and the Feasts of the Church in Middle English verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Life of Christ and the Feasts of the Church in Middle English verse, begins imperfectly. Decoration: Small initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

189. Harley MS 1288

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1288
Title:
Speculum Christiani; a collection of Latin exempla; Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins); a form of confession in Middle English; The Chastising of God's Children (chapters 24 and 25); Pro natura pollucionis valde salubris; De solempnitate sancti nominis Jhesu Amen; John Mirk, Festial (excerpts); Nicholas Bozon, Contes moralisés; Middle English and Latin poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: Speculum Christiani (Middle English prose and verse), imperfect. ff. 34r-60r: A collection of Latin exempla. f. 63r: A table of contents. ff. 64r-75v: Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins), beginning ‘the sevene ded...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

190. Harley MS 535

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 535
Title:
Memoriale Credencium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-142r: Memoriale Credencium, beginning: 'Man and woman þat wilneþ to fle synne and lede clene lyif: takeþ heede to þis litle tretys þat is iwrite in english tong for lewed men þat conneþ nouȝt understande latyn ne frensch. And hit is ydrawe out of holy write bi techyng of holy d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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