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771. Harley MS 4890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4890
Title:
The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-93r: The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version with a table of lections (ff. 1r-8r). Decoration: Large (5-line) 'Champ' initials in gold in frames with blue and purple grounds, with foliate extensions, at the beginning of each book. Large (3-line) initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

772. Harley MS 4912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4912
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

773. Harley MS 4930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4930
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

774. Harley MS 4971

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971
Title:
Grammatical, legal, and philosophical tracts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

775. Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128
Title:
Le Manuel des pechiez
Scope & Content:
ff. 93r–127v: William of Waddington, Le Manuel des pechiez (after f. 120v, 1305 lines are missing). Includes an inserted sermon in 122 stanzas (f. 123v), ‘Deu le omnipotent’ (Dean 199, nos. 635, 599). f. 127v: Names of knights of the Round Table, from Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

776. Harley MS 4987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4987
Title:
Visio Tnugdali; Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes; Regula Beati Augustini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitiones; Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 and 1; Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini;Pope Innocent III, Liber de contemptu mundi; Libellus de septem artibus philosophiae coelestis; Ambrose, De Virginitate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts that were copied by a single hand. Its contents strongly resemble those of Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 109 [CIX], as described by Henry Octavius Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus (Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

777. Harley MS 4999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4999
Title:
Statutes in Middle English from Edward III to Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-227v: Statutes in Middle English from the reign of Edward III to Henry VI (1.E.3 to 18.H.6) entitled ‘Nova Statuta’. f. 228v: A Middle English poem: ‘Whan phebus resplendysaunte in the hye region /and wyth hys goldyn beamys withdre hys lumynary / ffrom the cold moysture of dr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1439-1440
Extent:
1 volume

778. Harley MS 5017

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5017
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Macabees to Revelation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Macabees to Revelation, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

779. Harley MS 5026

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5026
Title:
Collections of sermons and expositions on the Psalms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains sermons and expositions on the Psalms, and seems to comprise three parts that may have been produced separately in the 13th century Part 1 (ff. 1r-42v); Part 2 (ff. 43r-139r); Part 3 (ff. 140r-145v). It contains a previously unnoticed line in Early Middle English on f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

780. Harley MS 5036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5036
Title:
Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

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