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261. Harley MS 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3490
Title:
Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

262. Harley MS 3719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3719
Title:
Collection of astronomical, calendrical, medical and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:
A composite and miscellaneous volume including: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1v, 4v) referring to the present volume, and a table of contents relating to Gerardus Bituricensis' commentary on the Viaticum (ff. 2r-3r) from a different manuscript; 2. An astrological text (ff. 3v-4v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1275-1540
Extent:

283 folios.

263. Harley MS 554

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 554
Title:
Vita Vidualis, a Middle English translation of Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A Latin title inscription: 'Vita Vidualis'. ff. 2r-37r: A Middle English translation of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola's Libro della vita viduale [The Book on the Life of the Widow](Florence, c. 1490-1500); introduced as follows: ‘Here folowithe the boke of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1490s
Extent:
1 volume

264. Harley MS 993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 993
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection; Treatise of Discretion of Spirits
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Walter Hilton, The Eight Chapters on Perfection, English translation of a work by written by the Aragonese Franciscan Luis de Fontibus (fl. 1383-1394); beginning: ‘Heere bigynneþ a tretis of viij chapitres necessarie for men þat ʒiven hem to perfection . whiche was founden...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

265. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

266. Harley MS 3486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3486
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

267. Harley MS 4294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4294
Title:
Hugh of Campden, Sidrak and Bokkus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sidrak and Bokkus, a Middle English translation by Hugh of Campden of the long rhymed French Sidrac; imperfect at the end; beginning: 'If þat þou vundestonde can / Haþ vij chambrez and no moo' (edited by Burton, Sidrak and Bokkus (1998-1999); see also IMEV 772; NIVEM 772; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

268. Harley MS 1862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1862
Title:
Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

269. Harley MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 149
Title:
Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of the Vernicle; A tretyse betwene Saynt Petre and Symon Magus; The Obyte of Pylat; The decollacyoun of Saynt Petre and Saynt Poule; Signs before Doomsday
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: Dives et Pauper, imperfect at the beginning. ff. 183-252r: Jacques Legrand (Jacobus Magnus), The Book of Good Manners. ff. 252v-255v: A Middle English treatise entitled Cena domini. ff. 255r-263r: The Gospel of Nicodemus in Middle English. ff. 263r-279r: Miracles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

270. Harley MS 665

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 665
Title:
Miscellany of rhetorics, grammar, theology, and medicine
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Texts relating to Rhetorics, Grammar, Theology and Medicine, and other Prose and Verse; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Imperfect. A composite miscellany of rhetorical, grammatical and theological texts in Latin and occasional prose and verse in Middle English. The cata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

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