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251. Harley MS 2382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2382
Title:
Middle English verse collection including Lydgate's Life of Our Lady and Chaucer's Prioress' Tale and Second Nun's Tale
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2574) ff.75r-86r: The Assumption of Our Lady(New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2165) ff. 86v-87r: Prayer to the Virgin from the Speculum Christiani (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2119...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

252. Harley MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 271
Title:
The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

253. Harley MS 2257

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2257
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 6208...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

254. Harley MS 1724

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1724
Title:
Book of accounts of charges of the work at Wark on Tweed Castle for the period 1542-1543
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-166r: Book of accounts of charges of the work at Wark on Tweed Castle for the period 1542-1543.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1542-1543
Extent:
1 volume

255. Harley MS 2390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2390
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Compendium; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Partly copy. Imperfect. The compendium contains texts relating to medicine and the regimen of health in Latin and Middle English, interspersed with collections of medical recipes (ff. 57v-58v, 59v-72, 75, 76-91v, 100v-102v, 107-108v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

256. Harley MS 1602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1602
Title:
Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

257. Harley MS 4015

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4015
Title:
Cartulary of the Hospital of St Giles, Holborn
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Added account of the founding of the Hospital of St Giles, in English. f. 1v: Added account of the events of 1125. f. 2r: Added donation charter. ff. 2v–3r: Contemporary table of contents, giving a list of parishes in the cartulary. f. 4r–v: Added donation charters. ff. 5r–205v: Cart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1402
Extent:

1 volume

258. Harley MS 6718

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6718
Title:
Collection of sermons; tract on the Pater Noster from William of Nassyngton’s Speculum Vitae; treatise on making testaments
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts that were produced separately in England in the 15th century. Part 1 (ff. 2-15) contains a collection of Latin sermons with occasional quotations in Middle English. Part 2 (ff. 16-33), contains a Middle English verse commentary on th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

259. Harley MS 330

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 330
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*,132: Fragments from a 13th-century copy of Justinian's Digest. ff. 1r–51r: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, book 1. ff. 52v–126v: Thomas Fishlake, Latin translation of Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis, book 2. ff. 126v–129v: Richard Rolle of Hampole, commentary on the Song of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

260. Harley MS 4826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4826
Title:
John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

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