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271. Harley MS 2270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

272. Harley MS 3151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3151
Title:
Regimen Animarum; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mathematica); a scientific text about astronomy; Ibn al-Daya (Haly), Commentary to Ptolemy's Centiloquium; Tractatus de planetis; a tract about music; a tract about illuminating manuscripts titled De Alluminatura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Regimen Animarum, imperfect at the end. According to the titulus, this part of the manuscript was written in 1343: 'Incipit liber qui vocatur animarum regimen compilatus in anno domini 1343. Incipit prologus'. ff. 24r-32v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1343 - 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

273. Harley MS 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2388
Title:
Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:
This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

274. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

275. Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2274
Title:
A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

276. Harley MS 3432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3432
Title:
The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

277. Harley MS 5026

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5026
Title:
Collections of sermons and expositions on the Psalms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains sermons and expositions on the Psalms, and seems to comprise three parts that may have been produced separately in the 13th century Part 1 (ff. 1r-42v); Part 2 (ff. 43r-139r); Part 3 (ff. 140r-145v). It contains a previously unnoticed line in Early Middle English on f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

278. Harley MS 4172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4172
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Sacerdos parochialis and De Festis Duplicibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains various items that appear to have been compiled for the use of a priest. The first part (ff. 1r-63r) contains one of the seven extant copies of the Sacerdos parochialis, a manual for parish priests in Middle English and Latin, including tracts on the Pater noster, Ave Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

279. Harley MS 1033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1033
Title:
Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-9r: Table of contents. f. 9v: Exposicio Verborum Anglicorum in veteribus Cartis a Regibus Concessis; containing a list with Middle English legal terms (e.g. 'Miskenninge') with explanations of their meanings in French. ff. 14r-16v: Magna Carta. ff. 16v-18r: Carta de Libe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

280. Harley MS 372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 372
Title:
John Lydgate, The Life of St Edmund and St Fremund; Advice to an old gentleman who wished for a young wife; John Lydgate, The Kings of England; John Lydgate, Complaint þat Crist maketh of his Passioun; Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite; Sir Richard Roos, La Belle Dame sans Mercy; John Lydgate, Prayer on the Five Joys of the Virgin Mary; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes; anonymous prayers and poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: John Lydgate, The Life of St Edmund and St Fremund. ff. 45r-51r: Advice to an old gentleman who wished for a young wife, ‘A philisophre a good clerk seculer’. ff. 51r-53v: John Lydgate, The Kings of England (revised edition). ff. 54r-55r: John Lydgate, Complaint þat ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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