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221. Harley MS 6628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6628
Title:
St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus; Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritatis; Duns Scotus, Commentary on Lombard's Sententiae (excerpt); Pseudo-Bonaventura, Compendium metricum super libros Sententiarum; Articuli in quibus magister non tenetur communiter a doctoribus; Versus super quatuor libros sententiarum; Decretum abbreviatum; Werner von Schussenried, Decretum versificatum; Auctoritates Aristotelis (fl...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: St Augustine of Hippo, De Haeresibus. ff. 3r-37r: Petrus Wiechs of Rosenheim, Prior of the the Benedictine abbey of Melk (r. 1418-1423), Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum (‘Biblia versificata’). ff. 39r-183r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae veritat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

222. Harley MS 486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 486
Title:
English miscellany of historical papers; an alchemical poem; copies from testaments; rentals; a tract on fasting; notes of a sermon
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Ex Fastis Idatianis ab exordio Neronis usque ad Aurelianum. ff. 2r-10v: Descriptio consulum ex quo primum ordinati sunt; followed by another list of Roman consuls ‘Ex Fastis Idatij’. ff. 11r-15r: Historical notes about England, partially in the hand of John Stow, beginning ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
first quarter of the 16th century-first quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

223. Harley MS 753

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 753
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (Extended Version to 1430), including John Page's poem 'The Siege of Rouen'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (Extended Version to 1430), including a poem by John Page (fl. 1418–1422), 'The Siege of Rouen'. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 90r: 'Item lent to mestres Boweyarr one pell of yuarne wylliam Satyllar […] ij bollys 1 was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

224. Harley MS 2372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2372
Title:
A Mirror for Recluses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of A Mirror for Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum inclusorum, an early 15th-century rule or guide for male anchorites. A complete copy of the text (the only other in existence) survives in a manuscript sold at Christie's, London, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

225. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

226. Harley MS 4800

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4800
Title:
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, Books 4-5
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, a Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis, incomplete, containing Book 4 (lacking chapters 41-66, the beginnings of chapters 7 and 67, the endings of chapters 6 and 40, and a folio with the middle of chapter 89) and Book 5, Chapte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

227. Harley MS 2397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2397
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, The Mixed Life, and Bonum Est
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (Book II). ff. 73r-85r: Walter Hilton, The Mixed Life. ff. 85v-94r: Walter Hilton, Bonum Est (a commentary on Psalm 91). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-4*v, 95-98v: Fragments of a 14th-century liturgical manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

228. Harley MS 1612

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1612
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Medical Treatises and Astrological Texts and Tables; early 15th cent. with 13th-cent. pastedowns. Middle English and Latin. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this miscellaneous and composite manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the medical texts are fully itemis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

229. Harley MS 433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 433
Title:
A collection of papers from the Signet Office, containing registers of grants, diplomatic correspondence and financial records related to the Crown, from the reigns of Edward V and Richard III
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains registers with abstracts of grants that passed the Signet Office, the king’s personal seal, during the reigns of Edward V and Richard III, and related materials. The latter include a list of office holders at the death of Edward IV, a list of the fees due to officers on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463-c 1547
Extent:
1 volume

230. Harley MS 3823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3823
Title:
Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Latin notes on the Old Testament, beginning: 'Frater ambrosius etcaetera'. ff. 50r-407v: Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: 'Quoniam ut ait sapiens, peccantem uirum inuoluet laqueus'; Latin sermons with verses in early medieval English on ff. 129r, 182v, 183r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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