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241. Harley MS 7333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7333
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English poetic works by Benedict Burgh, John Lydgate, Richard Sellyng, Charles d'Orléans, John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Middle English Prose Brut. f. 25r: Benedict Burgh, Cato Minor. ff. 25r-30v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major. ff. 30v-31r: Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune. ff. 31r-32v: On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France. f. 32v: A roundel on the Coronation ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

242. Harley MS 2380

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2380
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and charms, with four religious songs in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Table of contents, beginning: 'Pro capite Dolor capitis [later addition] / For wert and vanite in þe hed', followed by additional entries by a 17th-century hand. ff. 6r-61v, 63v-64v. Collection of over 250 medical recipes in Middle English, inconsistently numbered (ff. 6-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

243. Harley MS 2321

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2321
Title:
Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi; Menardus Monchus, Generalis et compendiosa librorum bibliae notitia; Martin of Troppau, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum; Mirabilia urbis Romae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (excerpts); collection of Latin tracts; John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae (excerpts); Latin poems; Speculum Monachorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); ending ‘explicit sermo Francisci de Maronis de indulgenciis’. ff. 17r-62r: A Middle English sermon on the Syon Pardon. ff. 62v-63v: A Middle English tract on the Pardon of Assisi. ff. 65r-88v: ‘Menard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

244. Harley MS 3725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3725
Title:
Chronicles of Hailes and Aberconwy abbeys
Scope & Content:
Composite volume: ff. 2–37 and ff. 38–81 were produced at different times, but it is likely that the latter was intended as a supplement to the first part, since the layout is identical. f. 1r: Modern note on Aberconway and Hailes. ff. 2r–31v: Chronicle of England, beginning, ‘Scibens Orosius ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

245. Harley MS 1659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1659
Title:
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

246. Harley MS 2266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2266
Title:
The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. This is the earliest of one of the two English translations of the Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum, a Latin version of an Arabic compilation by the philosopher Al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik. The Latin work was translated into...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

247. Harley MS 215

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 215
Title:
Thomas Becket, Epistolae; a legend of the body of St Thomas the Apostle; Hrabanus Maurus, Cena Cypriani; Alan of Tewkesbury, Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Northern Passion (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Thomas Becket, Epistolae, beginning ‘Desiderio desideravi videre faciem vestram’. ff. 106v-197r: A legend of the body of St Thomas the Apostle, beginning 'Thomas apostolus Ihesu Christi in ulteriori india sedens in hoc modi admirabili cathedra’. ff. 107r-113v: Hraban...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

248. Harley MS 2339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2339
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Rule of the Life of the Virgin Mary; Myrrour of Synners; The Three Arrows of Doomsday; treatise on the Three Estates; Song of Love of Jesus; William Lychefelde, Complaint of God
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prayer to Christ, beginning imperfectly due to the loss of a preceding folio: 'þere þi modir make þou þat þi love and þi charite; felowshippe me to þi modir'. ff. 2r-3r: A prayer to Christ, entitled: 'þis orisoun þat folowiþ is in mynde of ihesu cristis passioun'; beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

249. Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 651
Title:
Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica; list concerning ecclesiastical dioceses; Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich; Chronicle from the Creation to 1384; Series of English kings, from Alfred...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced in England. The first part (ff. 4-177) was produced in the third quarter of the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Reading (Berkshire). It contains a collection of chronicles as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter 12th century-4th quarter 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

250. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
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

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