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211. Harley MS 207

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 207
Title:
The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 16th-century Catholic-Protestant disputation on the Transubstantiation. Contents: ff. 1r-29r: The Banckett of John the Reve, unto Piers Ploughman, Laurens Laborer, Thomlyn Tailyor, and Hobb of the Hille; the title page on f. 1r contains the year ‘1532’ (with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1532
Extent:

1 volume

212. Harley MS 2386

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2386
Title:
Various historical texts; the Brut Chronicle in Latin; John Mandeville's Travels; a metrical romance in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-9v: A chronicle of British and English kings from the Viking invasions down to the coronation of King Henry IV. f. 10r: two notes about England. f. 10v: a short tract about calculating wheat measures at the Exchequer and converting into English measures. f. 11r: a note about...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

213. Harley MS 2391

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2391
Title:
Collection of sermons, exempla and didactic works in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prognostications for Christmas day and subsequent days (Latin). ff. 2r-133r: John Mirk, Festial, Middle English sermons from Advent to St Katherine. ff. 133r-133v: The Nine Virtues, shown by God to a ‘gud and a hely man’. f. 134r: The Ten Commandments, here entitled ‘D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

214. Harley MS 6670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6670
Title:
Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

215. Harley MS 1600

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1600
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical and surgical recipes and charms from the late 14th century or early 15th century with added recipes and charms that date to the late 15th and/or early 16th century. Two of the charms refer to the Earl of Hereford (f. 35r) and the Infirmary of Killyngworth (f. 35v). The re...
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 item

216. Harley MS 4486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486
Title:
A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1350-1631
Extent:
148 folios.

217. Harley MS 4344

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4344
Title:
A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-76r: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and again from 1470-1471) beginning: 'Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion [dice]batur'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 76v: A fragment of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

218. Harley MS 2254

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2254
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

219. Harley MS 4827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4827
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1419-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

220. Harley MS 3362

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3362
Title:
Collection of macaronic poems, songs, proverbs and riddles; grammatical rules; the last words of Thomas Cromwell; trilingual courtly love lyrics
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-79v: A collection of Latin poems, songs, proverbs and riddles on various religious and secular subjects, sometimes featuring Middle English verse (ff. 2v-5r, 21r, 33r, 36r, 89r-91r). Entitled ‘Collectio Carminum de rebus varijs et rythmicorum’ and associated with a canon of Bri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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