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561. Harley MS 1952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1952
Title:
Scope & Content:
Heraldic Treatise with Armorial Drawings and Medical Recipe for Edward IV; 1517. Middle English. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this heraldic manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only an additional medical recipe is fully itemised in the description. The main text is a heraldic tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 item

562. Harley MS 2110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2110
Title:
Cartulary of Castle Acre Priory
Scope & Content:
ff. 4*r–5*v: Fragment of Ælfric, Homilies, first series, for St John and St Stephen (1st half of the 11th century, Old English, written in insular minuscule); with a large initial and title in display capitals in red (f. 4*r); 220 × 150 mm. One bifolium, missing four lines of text in the upper p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

563. Harley MS 2169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2169
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript contains a collection of arms compiled in the time of Henry VI or Edward IV. The collection focuses on English arms, as is indicated by its opening pages which feature verses on and drawings of William of Normandy (f. 1r), King Henry V (f. 2r), and King Henry VI (f. 3r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

564. Harley MS 2181

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2181
Title:
Medulla grammaticae and other texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript comprises the Medulla grammaticae (ff. 9r-94r) with additional texts and notes (ff. 3r-8v, 94v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

565. Harley MS 2181, f 94v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2181, f 94v
Title:
Extract from Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum; notes
Scope & Content:
This leaf contains an extract from Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale magnum: - begins 'Pluribus est membris distincta figura loquele'; ends 'Qui dices requiem timeo vel spero laborem' (verses 2361-2379; opening lines of Chapter XII). The leaf also contains notes from the Medulla grammaticae, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
Single parchment leaf (verso), bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181

566. Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2181, ff 9r-94r
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
86 parchment leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2181

567. Harley MS 2182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2182
Title:
The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-185r: The Prose Brut; extended version to 1419. The manuscript contains numerous additions: f. 1*recto: Various early modern inscriptions, now largely erased. f. 80v: Draft indenture, referring to 'Johannes Mayler' of ?Aston ['Assone'], Flintshire, and 'Johannes Shones de M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

568. Harley MS 2202

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2202
Title:
A miscellany of English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: The Case of Anthony Ashley Cowper Earl of Shaftesbury (‘The Earle of Shaftsburyes Case’), beginning: ‘This day the Earle of Shaftsbury was brought to the Barr upon the returne of an alias habeat corpus directed to the Constable of the Tower of London’, written in the late ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

569. Harley MS 2247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2247
Title:
Sermons in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Sermons. Marginal notes in Latin are in a number of hands, principally that of the main scribe. One English note (f. 1v) is in the hand of a reader. Frequent underlining within the text, probably by the scribe, highlights quotations and important names. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-2r): First Sunday...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

570. Harley MS 2248

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2248
Title:
The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: A table of contents for the Prose Brut. ff. 19r-290v: The Prose Brut; the Common Version to 1419. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 18v: A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus'; added in a 15th-century hand. Decoration: Guide letters in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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