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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2261
Title:: An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6573
Title:: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2). Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3765
Title:: Register of the chantry of St Saviour, Waterford
Scope & Content:: The only known surviving register of a medieval Irish chantry: f. 1*r: Original cover, with inscriptions. f. 1*v: Added theological commonplaces. ff. 1r–4v: Added documents on gifts to the chantry. ff. 5r–38r: General register, arranged topographically, opening with the chantry’s foundation ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1482-1480s
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1120
Title:: English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Table of contents. ff. 5r-8r: Magna Carta. ff. 8r-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum. ff. 10r-12r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 12r-14r: Dictum de Kenilworth. ff. 14r-19r: Statuta Marlebergie. ff. 19r-29r: S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5401
Title:
Scope & Content:: Medical and Culinary Compendium; 2nd half of the 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Partly copies. The MS. mainly contains medical and culinary treatises and recipes, which include: - a) John Arderne, Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-77v; item 1); - b) Treatise on uroscopy (ff. 94-94v; item 9); - c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6333/1
Title:: Oone of Foure; calendar with English lections from the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:: This is the first part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the second volume is Harley MS 6333/2). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffite...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1430
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1485
Extent:: 52 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2256
Title:: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (common version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-202v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (common version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen' (imperfect). Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold with acanthus leaves extending into the margins (f. 1r). Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flouri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2343
Title:: Collection of Middle English tracts of religious instruction, including the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the Apostle's Creed, and the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: The Lords Prayer, beginning: 'In þe name of þe fadir and of þe sone and of þe holi goost amen'. ff. 1r-1v: The Ave Maria, beginning: 'Heil marie ful of grace'. ff. 1v-2r: The Apostles Creed, beginning: 'I bileve into god fadir almy[g]ti make of hevene and of erþe'. ff. 2r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2346
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae; collection of Latin sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments; treatise on the division of the Ten Commandments; De decem Plagis et decem Praeceptis; The Long Charter of Christ; Bernart Amoros, Speculum Sacerdotum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite miscellany of three parts (ff. 1r-11v; ff, 12r-33v; ff, 34r-72v) that have been written at the end of the 14th century and in the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae (here with the added title De gradus contemplationis), b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1375-1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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