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61. Harley MS 171

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 171
Title:
Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Alchemical recipe to ‘ze [see] the secrets of secrets & frest & last as ye may se in planyttes and in planephiffres’. ff. 2r–109r: Commentary on the Apocalypse of John in the Wycliffite translation, with biblical passages alternating with commentary in a continuous sequence. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

62. Harley MS 272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 272
Title:
Wycliffite Bible, New Testament (Later Version)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–155v: New Testament, in the Wycliffite translation into Middle English (later version). Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 22r, 59r, 75r, 82v, 90r, 95r, etc.). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

63. Harley MS 1029

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1029
Title:
Mass lectionary from the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Mass lectionary with readings from the Gospels and Epistles in Middle English. These have been taken from the so-called ‘Early Version’ of the Wycliffite Bible. Contents: f. [1a]verso: A lection from Mark 8. ff. 2r-153v: Temporale, beginning ‘Here byginnyþ the gos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1490s
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 2403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2403
Title:
John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191r: John Mirk, Festial; including verses on f. 151r (Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin); and f. 13r (Seven lines, ‘Wherfor pray we to hym to make us studfast yn our fay’); ending with the verses ‘Mentem sanctam [habuit], spontaneam [mortem sustinuit], honorem deo [dedit] et pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 542

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 542
Title:
English historical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A note about the foundation of a hospital in Ingastone. ff. 1v-10r: John Taxtor of Bury St Edmunds, excerpts from his chronicle. ff. 11r-12v: A list of nobles who came to England with William the Conqueror. f. 13r: John Lydgate, The order of Fools, extract only. f. 14r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. 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

67. Harley MS 6398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6398
Title:
Boke of Marchalsi
Scope & Content:
Contains the Boke of Marchalsi, a treatise on horse breeding and veterinary medicine. Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and small initials in plain blue. Line fillers and paraph marks in blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 1568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1568
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182r: The Prose Brut Chronicle (Common version to 1419). Decoration: Historiated initial of King Diocletian and his daughters combined with a full bar border in colours and gold with floral decoration (f. 1r). Numerous historiated initials or small miniatures in colours and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 450
Title:
A collection of legal texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80v: An 'Abridgment of olde statutes'. ff. 81r-85v: A tract entitled 'Ad Parliamentum tent. 29 die April. anno iijo E.’ ff. 86r-86v: The ‘Bylle of Granez, Whete, Rye and Barley’. ff. 86v-87r: The ‘Bylle of [Artyficers]' [replaced with: ‘Wares or thyngs that shall not be bro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 5146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5146
Title:
Tenurae; Natura Brevium; Novelli Tenores
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of collections of legal cases written in Latin and French. It also contains a previously unidentified stanza from the Middle English poem The Court of Sapience, usually attributed to John Lydgate, but here assigned to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem has only been ide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1483
Extent:
1 volume

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