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551. Harley MS 1764

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1764
Title:
The Knight of the Tower, an anonymous Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de La Tour Landry, by Geoffroy IV de la Tour-Landry
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only known surviving copy of the earlier Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de la Tour Landry by Geoffroy de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), known as The Knight of the Tower. This copy of the text is imperfect, with a catchword on f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

552. Harley MS 1766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1766
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, an English translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait, with English marginal notes in red, in the same hand as the text. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Table of Contents t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

553. Harley MS 1770

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1770
Title:
A trilingual Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two parts that were produced at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire. The first part (ff. 3r-157v), written in the first half of the 14th century, contains the Psalms, canticles and hymns in Latin prose with parallel Anglo-Norman translations. The second part (ff. 158r-241r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

554. Harley MS 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1785
Title:
Astronomical texts and tables; John Somer, Kalendarium; the Statute of the Forest of Waltham; an extract from Palladius Rutilis, De Agricultura; a treatise by Nicholas Bollarde on the ordering of trees; notes on agricultural matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An astronomical table with, for each month of a year, 4-9 columns and 31 rows with Arabic numbers in brown or red ink. f. 3v: A Middle English astronomical text for calculating the epact, beginning: 'Yf thou wilt perfitly and brefly know the tru Age of the mone . whan so ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

555. Harley MS 1806

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1806
Title:
Richard Rolle, The Middle English Prose Psalter with Latin Canticles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Richard Rolle, the Middle English Prose Psalter, imperfect at the beginning in Psalm 1.1, incipit: 'to hym dey of body and soul.' ff. 152r-170v: Canticles in Middle English with Latin headings including the Old Testament Canticles and Magnificat in Richard Rolle's transl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

556. Harley MS 1808

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1808
Title:
Collection of chronicles, letters, and charters relating to England and York Cathedral
Scope & Content:
A collection of historical texts probably belonging to York Cathedral Priory or a member of the chapter, as indicated by the focus on York and its cathedral in several of these texts. ff. 1v-8r: annals from AD 1-1122, after c. 500 mostly focused on events in England, Latin. f. 9r: various insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

557. Harley MS 1845

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1845
Title:
Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, containing English saints such as Wulfstan, Milburga (in red), Oswald of Worchester, David, Cedd, Edward the Martyr (Death and Translation), Cuthbert, Guthlac, Ælfheah, Deposition and Translation of Erkenwald (both in red), John of Beverley, Dunstan, St Ethelbert ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

558. Harley MS 1862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1862
Title:
Oon of Foure; a treatise on the Ten Commandments, virtues and sins
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-77v: Oon of Foure; a Middle English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Gospel Harmony Unum ex Quattuor, beginning: 'heer bigynneþ a prolog in to o booc maad of þe foure gospelis: Clement a preest of þe chirche of lantony gaderde alle þe sentences of þe foure gospeleris in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

559. Harley MS 1878

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1878
Title:
Customs on trade
Scope & Content:
A collection of 103 original and copied documents relating to customs on trade and their regulation in England, particularly in London. Contents: f. 1v: List of counties in an arbitrary order, late 17th century, pastedown. ff. 2r-21r: Original petitions, licences, writs, warrants, and charter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century to late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

560. Harley MS 1896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1896
Title:
Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles, and the Athanasian Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles and the Athanasian Creed. Decoration: 2 full borders in colours and gold with foliate decoration and gold balls and historiated initials at the beginning of Psalms 1, 109 (ff. 1r, 78v). 5 3-sided...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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