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671. Harley MS 2415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2415
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

672. Harley MS 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2417
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

673. Harley MS 2420

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2420
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

674. Harley MS 2421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2421
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

675. Harley MS 2431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2431
Title:
Breviary, with a York calendar and other liturgical texts
Scope & Content:
This breviary is a rare surviving example of a late medieval book that is known to have been used in (at least) two parish or local church settings: at the chapel of St Giles’s Hospital near Brompton-on-Swale, and slightly later in the chantry of St Giles, in the chapel of Ravensworth Castle, bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

676. Harley MS 2436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2436
Title:
Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 14th-century collection of sermons for saints' feast days (ff. 17r-168v), with sermons added in the 15th century at the beginning (ff. 1r-14v). Contents: ff. 1r-14v: A collection of sermons; with a previously unrecorded Middle English verse translation of Latin tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

677. Harley MS 2445

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2445
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

678. Harley MS 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
227 folios.

679. Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v
Title:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms
Scope & Content:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
5 folios.

680. Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:
Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:
Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

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