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291. Harley MS 4789

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4789
Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

292. Harley MS 5908/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5908/1
Title:
Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf

293. Harley MS 3952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3952
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents. ff. 2r-105v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady. f. 105v: A poem on the death of King Edward IV, entitled ‘for the deth of king Edward the iiijth’; beginning ‘[In Ma]y whan every herte is lyghte’. The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 105v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

294. Harley MS 5044

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5044
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Brevium; Robert Grosseteste, Rules for Household and Estate Management (Les Reules Seynt Robert), Rules for his Own Household, Statutes for the Diocese of Lincoln, Treatise on Confession; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript predominantly contains copies of well-known English statutes of the 13th century, but it also includes previously unknown copies of Anglo-Norman and Latin works by the 13th-century authors Robert Grosseteste (b. c. 1170, d. 1253) and Walter of Henley (fl. c. 1260). It includes hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

295. Harley MS 3542

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3542
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Alchemical and Medical Treatises and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect in parts. A composite and miscellaneous volume, its first part (ff. 1-94v; items 1-19) relates mainly to alchemy and includes: - a) Mirror of lights (ff. 1-14, imperfect; item ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

296. Harley MS 560

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 560
Title:
Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis; Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (excerpts), ‘Collectiones de vita et miraculis D. Johannis Berlaci [etc.]’. ff. 14v-43v: Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley (‘Liberates Ecclesiae sancti Johannis de Beverlie’); featuri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

297. Harley MS 3388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3388
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent., 1st half. Latin and Middle English. Copy. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - a) Practica de omnibus morbis (ff. 1-4v); - b) Rogerius de Parma, Chirurgia (ff. 5-19): see Thorndike-Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

298. Harley MS 2668

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2668
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters: Medicine and Surgery: Sermons: Composite collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons: 15th cent., 1st half: Lat. and Enm: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

299. Harley MS 5272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5272
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The Life of St Dorothy; The Abbey of the Holy Ghost
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (verse), imperfect at the beginning. ff. 99r-104v: The Life of St Dorothy (verse). ff. 105r-137v: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost; ending with the colophon 'This endith without bost / The abbey of the holigost'. Decoration: Blue initials w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

300. Harley MS 869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 869
Title:
Collection of English statutes, including Ralph of Hengham, Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, and Britton
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-6r: Chapter lists for English statutes. ff. 7r-8v: Magna Carta. ff. 8v-9v: Carta de Foresta. ff. 9v-10r: Statutum de Foresta. ff. 10r-10v: Consuetudines Foreste. ff. 10v-11r: Confirmacio Cartarum per Regis Edwardi I. ff. 11r-11v: Sententia lata super Cartas (1253)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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