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741. Harley MS 3913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3913
Title:
Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins; collection of theological extracts; Apocalips of Jesu Crist
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins, beginning: 'Daniel .5. Quando elevatum est cor Nabugor'. ff. 19r-111v: Collection of theological extracts with headings such as De homine; De preceptis datis; De casu primi hominis; De tribulacione, including passages from John Wyclif. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

742. Harley MS 3943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3943
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

743. Harley MS 3945

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3945
Title:
Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: The Prose Brut; Common Version to 1333. Decoration: A large gilded initial with foliate decoration in the margin reaching down to the bas de page (f. 1r). Large (3-line) initials in red up to f. 41r; after that, empty spaces for initials have occasionally been filled w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

744. Harley MS 3952

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3952
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady; The lamentacione of ladyes for the deth of king Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A table of contents. ff. 2r-105v: John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady. f. 105v: A poem on the death of King Edward IV, entitled ‘for the deth of king Edward the iiijth’; beginning ‘[In Ma]y whan every herte is lyghte’. The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 105v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

745. Harley MS 3954

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3954
Title:
English miscellany with Mandeville's Travels, Piers Plowman, catechetical texts, and devotional poems.
Scope & Content:
The main part of this miscellany contains catechetical texts, some with exempla and devotional poems about the Passion in Middle English with rubricated headings in Latin. However, the manuscript is especially known for its copy of William Langland's dream-vision Piers Plowman and an illustrated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

746. Harley MS 3960

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3960
Title:
Cartulary of Melrose Abbey
Scope & Content:
f. ir: Fragment of a former flyleaf with inscription. f. 1r–109r: Cartulary, arranged topographically. Includes copies of numerous royal and occasional papal and episcopal charters throughout (with contemporary additions: ff. 65r–66v, 76v, 100r, 102r–109r). f. 110v: Added text of an indulgance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1488-1490s
Extent:

Parchment codex

747. Harley MS 4011

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4011
Title:
An English miscellany including poems by John Lydgate; Craft of Dying; Duodecim Gradus Humilitatis; Counsels of Isidore; The Libel of English Policy; Osbern Bokenham, Mappula Anglie; John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth; John Russell, Book of Nurture
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: John Lydgate, So as the Crabbe Goth Forward; fragment. f. 1r: John Lydgate, All riȝtwisnes doþe now proced. ff. 1r-1v: John Lydgate, Translacyon by lydgate of Stans puer ad mensum. ff. 1v-2r: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Extract of Book III, here entitled: ‘Lenvoye t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

748. Harley MS 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4012
Title:
Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s-1470s
Extent:
1 volume

749. Harley MS 4015

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4015
Title:
Cartulary of the Hospital of St Giles, Holborn
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Added account of the founding of the Hospital of St Giles, in English. f. 1v: Added account of the events of 1125. f. 2r: Added donation charter. ff. 2v–3r: Contemporary table of contents, giving a list of parishes in the cartulary. f. 4r–v: Added donation charters. ff. 5r–205v: Cart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1402
Extent:

1 volume

750. Harley MS 4016

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4016
Title:
A cookery book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: The banquet for King Richard II, organised by John Fordham, Bishop of Durham, at Durham House, London, in 1387, ‘[T]his is the purviaunce made for King Richard being with þe Duc of lancastre at the Bisshoppes place of Durham at London the xxiij day of September the yere of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

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