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521. Harley MS 1605/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/3
Title:
The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1390-early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

522. Harley MS 1612

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1612
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Medical Treatises and Astrological Texts and Tables; early 15th cent. with 13th-cent. pastedowns. Middle English and Latin. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this miscellaneous and composite manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the medical texts are fully itemis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

523. Harley MS 1628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1628
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical Glossaries, Texts, and Recipes; 15th cent., 2nd half. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The volume, entitled 'Dispensatory', is a compilation of glossaries and texts on simple drugs put together by or for the use of an English apothecary possibly around 1483 (date on f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

524. Harley MS 1659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1659
Title:
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

525. Harley MS 1666

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1666
Title:
The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-111v: The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. iii recto: A note in pencil by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'This MS is stated to have belonged to Matthew ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

526. Harley MS 1671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1671
Title:
The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

527. Harley MS 1680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1680
Title:
French historical collection
Scope & Content:
Composite manuscript mostly of French historical tracts relating to the late seventeenth century. Contents: ff. 1-8: collection of over 200 medical recipes in Middle English, French, and Latin, 14th century. The English recipes probably translated from French or Anglo-Norman. Prologue inc. 'He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century to the late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

528. Harley MS 1701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1701
Title:
Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne; Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord and the Hours of the Passion; King Robert of Sicily; a mass against the plague
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Robert Mannyng [Robert Mannyng of Brunne] (d. in or after 1338), Handlyng Synne, a Middle English translation of the Anglo-Norman French Manuel des pechiez, attributed to William of Waddington (late 13th century) [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 778], enti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

1 volume

529. Harley MS 1704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1704
Title:
Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

530. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

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