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351. Harley MS 3840

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3840
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. The manuscript comprises a large herbal in Latin (ff. 1-138; item 1) and a Middle English herbal, known as Agnus castus (ff. 139-178v; item 2) with embedded recipes. The previous ownership, and the date an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

352. Harley MS 2406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2406
Title:
Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite codex formed of three separate parts (ff. 1-11; 12-35, and 36-85). ff. 1r-11v: Prayer and devotional texts. ff. 12r-35v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis.' ff. 36r-86r: Devotional texts including Richard Roll...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

353. Harley MS 3383

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3383
Title:
Collection of medical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Middle English treatise on urine, beginning imperfectly: 'But yf the malyncole and the fleumatyk make þe suche than hy buthe yn a[…] oþer in a fever tercian. Nowe speke we of twey rede urynys with a whyte resydeus scheweth a man bue en a fever'; ending: 'and lete hyn use ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

354. Harley MS 2280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2280
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585), beginning: 'The double sorowe of troilus to tellen / Þat was þe kynge Priamus sone of Troye / In lovynge how hise avent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

355. Harley MS 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4011
Title:
An English miscellany including poems by John Lydgate; Craft of Dying; Duodecim Gradus Humilitatis; Counsels of Isidore; The Libel of English Policy; Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Anglie; John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth; John Russell, Book of Nurture
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: John Lydgate, So as the Crabbe Goth Forward; fragment. f. 1r: John Lydgate, All riȝtwisnes doþe now proced. ff. 1r-1v: John Lydgate, Translacyon by lydgate of Stans puer ad mensum. ff. 1v-2r: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Extract of Book III, here entitled: ‘Lenvoye t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

356. Harley MS 4866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4866
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes. The poem was composed in c. 1410-1411 and addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales (the future Henry V). This manuscript is one the early copies of the text and was possibly prepared under the supervision of Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1411-c 1420
Extent:

Parchment codex.

357. Harley MS 4987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4987
Title:
Visio Tnugdali; Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes; Regula Beati Augustini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitiones; Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 and 1; Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini;Pope Innocent III, Liber de contemptu mundi; Libellus de septem artibus philosophiae coelestis; Ambrose, De Virginitate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts that were copied by a single hand. Its contents strongly resemble those of Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 109 [CIX], as described by Henry Octavius Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus (Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

358. Harley MS 209

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 209
Title:
Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum; Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis; Peter of Oxford, Summula Confessionis and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of theological and ecclesiastical texts, probably created for a monk of Abingdon Abbey. Contents: f. 1*v: Partial accounts of Abingdon Abbey, notes on sugar, and medical notes on bloodletting, 14th century. ff. 1r-30v: Collection of short theological texts and copies of ecclesias...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

359. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

360. Harley MS 1758

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1758
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, including the Tale of Gamelyn. Imperfect, with the loss of many folios throughout the manuscript. Occasional marginal notes in English and Latin are written by the scribe of the nearby text, and some (in red) by the rubricator. A few additional notes in ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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