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501. Harley MS 1205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1205
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125r: Prick of Conscience, ending: ‘Explicit expliceat ludere Scriptor eat’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 125r: A Latin praise-complaint of the Pope entitled In papam: ‘Pauperibus sua dat gratis, nec munera curat / Curia papalis, quodmodo percipimus / Laus t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

502. Harley MS 1210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1210
Title:
Law statutes for England
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains law texts from England in Latin and French that were probably written in the late 15th century. Other law texts were added in the final decade of the 15th century and early 16th century. In the same period, a Middle English poem, instructions, recipes and notes were adde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

503. Harley MS 1212

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1212
Title:
Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14r: A ‘kalendar of lessouns pistlis and gospels of al þe ȝeer’. ff. 15r-283r: Wycliffite New Testament, later version with the usual prologues and table of lections. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A biblical quotation: 'Rev. 12.5 She bare a k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:
1 volume

504. Harley MS 1239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1239
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; a selection from The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400): Troilus and Criseyde, and a selection from The Canterbury Tales. The latter includes The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

505. Harley MS 1245

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1245
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; 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’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

506. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

507. 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

508. Harley MS 1277

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1277
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Grammatical Treatises; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. A collection of grammatical treatises including: - a) A List of Latin verbs (ff. 51-149v); - b) Nicolaus de Munshulle, Opus grammaticum: verbale (ff. 150-169), another copy in Add. 37075, ff. 331-354: see G. L. Bursill-H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

509. Harley MS 1288

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1288
Title:
Speculum Christiani; a collection of Latin exempla; Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins); a form of confession in Middle English; The Chastising of God's Children (chapters 24 and 25); Pro natura pollucionis valde salubris; De solempnitate sancti nominis Jhesu Amen; John Mirk, Festial (excerpts); Nicholas Bozon, Contes moralisés; Middle English and Latin poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: Speculum Christiani (Middle English prose and verse), imperfect. ff. 34r-60r: A collection of Latin exempla. f. 63r: A table of contents. ff. 64r-75v: Richard of Lavenham, De Septem Peccatis Mortalibus (Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins), beginning ‘the sevene ded...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

510. 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

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