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321. Harley MS 4349

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4349
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical and Cosmetic Recipes and short Medical Treatises; circa 1510. Middle English. Copies. The MS. includes a collection of medical recipes (ff. 5-12v, 13-222v, 249-249v; item 1), short medical treatises (ff. 223-248; item 2) and cosmetic recipes (ff. 258v-260v, 262v-266; ite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1505-1515
Extent:
1 item

322. Harley MS 773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 773
Title:
Formulary
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of 15th century legal and administrative documents copied to serve as models for a scribe. Contents: f. iir is a scrap of paper pasted onto an unfoliated modern endleaf, bearing the note: '12 Nou: 1661 / at the shop agst Mr Littlebury'. ff. iiir-v is a scrap of parchmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

323. Harley MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 221
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a 15th-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 321....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

324. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

325. Harley MS 1260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1260
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (The Percy Hours)
Scope & Content:
This prayer book contains items that are typical of a Book of Hours, including a Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Seven Penitential Psalms, and a Litany of Saints. However, its larger part comprises prayers in Latin and Anglo Norman that are not organised according to the canonical hours. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1370
Extent:

1 volume

326. Harley MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3776
Title:
The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:
The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1345-1360s
Extent:

Parchment codex

327. Harley MS 4763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4763
Title:
Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; poem in praise of Henry V
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-275r: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; treatise including state letters and other documents concerning the right of England to France, and literary works such as an excerpt from the Somnium viridarii, Chapter 186 (ff. 35r-41r); the Bucolicum carmen XII [...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

328. Harley MS 2946

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2946
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Breviary, Use of Sarum, including: 1. Temporale, incipit (rubric): 'Dominica prima adventus domini', including an office for the dedication of the church (f. 176v); ends imperfectly in 'lectio I' of the dedication of the church, explicit: 'Etiam fratres videte quam pulcrum est templum quod edif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1405
Extent:
1 volume

329. Harley MS 7184

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7184
Title:
John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: John Gower, Confessio Amantis; beginning: 'Torpor ebes sensus scola parva labor minimusque / Causam ergo minimus ipse minora canam'; ending : 'hath do wherof his kniȝthiede / Is yit comended over all'. Imperfect: the text lacks 1 folio after f. 25 (containing English Works 1900-1901,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

330. Harley MS 211

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 211
Title:
Pastoral manual
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–3v: Versicles and psalms, ‘Hic incipiunt quindecim psalmi.’ ff. 3v–15v: ‘Matutine beate uirginis marie per totum annum.’ ff. 16r–18r: ‘Ad completorium.’ f. 18r: Invocation of the Trinity, ‘Deus pater in primo folio ✠ deus filius in secundo filio ✠ deus spiritus sanctus in tercio folio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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