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311. Harley MS 1304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1304
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’; The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99r: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 2574). ff. 100r-102v: ‘Questiones by twene the Maister of Oxenford and his Clerke’. ff. 103r-103v: The ABC of Aristotle, and other proverbs (Boffey and Edwards, New Index (2005), no. 4155). Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

312. Harley MS 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4012
Title:
Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s-1470s
Extent:
1 volume

313. Harley MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 43
Title:
Benedict Burgh, Cato Major; Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, translated into English by John Walton; William Cornysh, A Treatise between Enformacione and Musyke; A Balade of Trouthe (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae: translated by John Walton; with the Latin text in the margins added at a later stage; possibly by Thomas Chaundler up to f. 29v. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 3r-3v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major (imperfect); w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

314. Harley MS 1740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1740
Title:
Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

315. Harley MS 6615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6615
Title:
The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

316. Harley MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3
Title:
John Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, with glosses and recipes by John Dee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the medical work of John Mirfield [Johannes de Mirfeld] (d. 1407), an ecclesiastic and medical writer, and chaplain of the hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, in London. Towards the end of his life he wrote two encyclopedic works in Latin, the so-called Florarium Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

317. Harley MS 1005

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1005
Title:
Bury St Edmunds customary (‘Liber albus’)
Scope & Content:
Register known as ‘Liber albus’ (‘The White Book’): an inventory of charters, arranged under the headings Regum, Privilegia, Celeraria, Sacristia, de Camera, Elemosinar., De hospitali, Pitanciaria, De domo hospitum, De infirmaria, and Abbatia, each with numbered topographical subdivisions. Bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

318. Harley MS 3846

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3846
Title:
Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotorum regis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum; Vita Sancti Oswaldi; poem on St Oswald; Henry of Sawtry, Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii; a genealogy of kings, excerpts from chronicles and a political poem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-147 and ff. 149-196) that were written, respectively, in the first and second half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 2r-70r: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis. ff. 71r-85r: Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

319. Harley MS 5444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5444
Title:
Votive masses; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis; William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Jacobus de Lausanne, Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and Job
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts that were separately produced and joined together at a later point, possibly in the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) is a single booklet with votive masses that was commissioned by Alicia Lygh (d. in or after 1525) of Chippenham, Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-1503
Extent:
1 volume

320. Harley MS 1952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1952
Title:
Scope & Content:
Heraldic Treatise with Armorial Drawings and Medical Recipe for Edward IV; 1517. Middle English. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this heraldic manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only an additional medical recipe is fully itemised in the description. The main text is a heraldic tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 item

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