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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4486
Title:: A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1631
Extent:: 148 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4690
Title:: The Brut Chronicle; 'Richard Coer de Lion'
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Middle English translation of the Brut Chronicle from French by John Mandeville in 1435. It also includes a poem in Middle English verse known as 'Richard Coer de Lion'. Contents: ff. 4r-108r: The so-called 'Peculiar version' of the Brut ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4733
Title:: Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4763
Title:: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; poem in praise of Henry V
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-275r: Thomas Beckington, De iure regis Angliae ad Franciscam; treatise including state letters and other documents concerning the right of England to France, and literary works such as an excerpt from the Somnium viridarii, Chapter 186 (ff. 35r-41r); the Bucolicum carmen XII [...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4775
Title:: Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4789
Title:: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-286v: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, in the English translation by John Trevisa; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Historiated initial with author portrait (damaged or erased) in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border (f. 1r). Large initial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4800
Title:: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, Books 4-5
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, a Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis, incomplete, containing Book 4 (lacking chapters 41-66, the beginnings of chapters 7 and 67, the endings of chapters 6 and 40, and a folio with the middle of chapter 89) and Book 5, Chapte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4826
Title:: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:: ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4827
Title:: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-157r: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (extended version to 1419), entitled: 'Here bigynneth a booke whiche is callid Brute the Cronicles of Englond'; beginning: 'This boke treteh and telleth of þe kynges & principal lordes' The manuscript contains several later additio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1419-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4866
Title:: Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes. The poem was composed in c. 1410-1411 and addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales (the future Henry V). This manuscript is one the early copies of the text and was possibly prepared under the supervision of Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1411-c 1420
Extent:: Parchment codex.

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