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611. Harley MS 2324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2324
Title:
The Lanterne of Liȝt
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Lanterne of Liȝt (The Lanterne of Light), a Lollard tract, written in Middle English in the early 15th century, containing an exposition, supported by passages from the Bible and from the writings of the Fathers and medieval divines, of the principal tenets of the fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

612. Harley MS 2330

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2330
Title:
Middle English translations of tracts by Pseudo-Augustine
Scope & Content:
Contents: Middle English translations of four pseudo-Augustinian texts thought to have been made by an anonymous Wycliffite translator. ff. 1r-66v: Middle English translation of Pseudo-Augustine, De salutaribus documentis (beginning 'A my dere broþir if þou coneitist to wite'). ff. 66v-97v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

613. Harley MS 2332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2332
Title:
Illustrated almanac
Scope & Content:
A small illustrated almanac produced during the time of Henry IV (r. 1399-1413). The manuscript includes: Calendar (ff. 1v-13r); Table of dominical letters (ff. 13v-14r); Solar eclipse diagrams from 1411 to 1479 (ff. 14v-15r); Lunar eclipse diagrams from 1406 to 1481 (ff. 15v-17r); Zodia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1412
Extent:

1 volume

614. Harley MS 2333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2333
Title:
Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s Colle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

615. Harley MS 2335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2335
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

616. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

617. Harley MS 2338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume

618. Harley MS 2339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2339
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Rule of the Life of the Virgin Mary; Myrrour of Synners; The Three Arrows of Doomsday; treatise on the Three Estates; Song of Love of Jesus; William Lychefelde, Complaint of God
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prayer to Christ, beginning imperfectly due to the loss of a preceding folio: 'þere þi modir make þou þat þi love and þi charite; felowshippe me to þi modir'. ff. 2r-3r: A prayer to Christ, entitled: 'þis orisoun þat folowiþ is in mynde of ihesu cristis passioun'; beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

619. Harley MS 2340

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2340
Title:
Collection of treatises on hawking, including the 'J. B. Treatise'
Scope & Content:
This pocket-sized manuscript contains a collection of three Middle English treatises on the subject of hawking, including a version of the so-called 'J. B. Treatise'. The text contains a hierarchy of hawks and owners (including the line, 'A kesterell for a knafe', f. 50r) as well as a final sect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

620. Harley MS 2341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2341
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-13r: Calendar featuring English saints; and with Thomas Becket's name inked out; featuring a rhyme in English on the number of days in twelve months (f. 3r), written in the same hand as the rest of the calendar: 'Thirti dayes hath November / April, June, and September / Of xxvi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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