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791. Harley MS 5396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5396
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1470
Extent:
1 item

792. Harley MS 5398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5398
Title:
Collection of religious texts, including Richard Rolle, De modo vivendi; sermons by Johannis Schyrborn, John Haynton, and Rainold of Gloucester; Tract on the Ten Sibyls; Speculum peccatoris; Richard of Saint-Victor, Benjamin minor; Formula Dictaminis; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum conscientiae, Contemplationes de passione Christi, Epistola de honestate morum, Meditiationes de miseria humane conditiones, and De ingratitudine
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: Poem on the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac: Est aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo / Libra que scorpio architenens capra urna que pisces / Semper quindenis ponuntur signa kalendis'; followed by a prose explanation on the Signs of the Zodiac. f. 2r: Mnemonic verse on the Kalenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

793. Harley MS 5401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5401
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical and Culinary Compendium; 2nd half of the 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Partly copies. The MS. mainly contains medical and culinary treatises and recipes, which include: - a) John Arderne, Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-77v; item 1); - b) Treatise on uroscopy (ff. 94-94v; item 9); - c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

794. Harley MS 5430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5430
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3*r-7*r: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 1r-4v: Magna Carta. ff. 4v-6r: The Charter of the Forest (1217). ff. 6r-12v: The Statute of Malborough (1267). ff. 12v-14r: The Statute of Merton (1236). ff. 14r-17r: The Statute of Gloucester (1278). ff. 17r-28r: Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

795. Harley MS 5444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5444
Title:
Votive masses; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis; William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Jacobus de Lausanne, Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and Job
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts that were separately produced and joined together at a later point, possibly in the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) is a single booklet with votive masses that was commissioned by Alicia Lygh (d. in or after 1525) of Chippenham, Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-1503
Extent:
1 volume

796. Harley MS 5751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5751
Title:
A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-327r: A book for the instruction of young clerks proceeding to holy orders, containing guides to confession and penance, practice translations into English (f. 146r), beginning ‘Grammatica vel Grammatice est literalis sciencia radix omni scienciarum cum qua omnia sine qua nichi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

797. Harley MS 5767

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5767
Title:
Gospels of Luke and John in the later Wyclifitte version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113r: The Gospels of Luke (ff. 1r-63v) and John (ff. 63v-113r) in the later Wyclifitte version. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 113v: Latin notes with numerals, added in the 15th century. f. 1*verso: An inscription: 'Mem[orandum] compare this with Hampol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

798. Harley MS 5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5768
Title:
New Testament Epistles, Revelation, in the later Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: New Testament Epistles (ff. 1r-39r) and Revelation (ff. 39v-82v) in Middle English, in the later Wycliffite version. ff. 83r-84r: A Middle English translation of Matthew 5:1-17, beginning: 'and ihesu seynge þe peple wente up into an hil and whane he was sett: his discipl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

799. Harley MS 5908/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5908/1
Title:
Fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale', from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
This single leaf contains a fragment of 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), comprising ll. 808-891 of the text, beginning, 'Takeþ it aȝen I ȝeue ȝew leue of my grace'. The leaf was formerly f. 61 in Harley MS 5908, a 17th-century co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf

800. Harley MS 5977

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5977
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
9th century - 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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