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801. Harley MS 6041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6041
Title:
William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman. ff. 97r-102v: A form of confession in Middle English prose; added below the text is ‘Explycit pere [p] Symele’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 96v: Latin sayings: ‘ego sum bonus puer quem Deus amat’ and 'Equore ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

802. Harley MS 6333/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6333/1
Title:
Oone of Foure; calendar with English lections from the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:
This is the first part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the second volume is Harley MS 6333/2). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

803. Harley MS 6333/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6333/2
Title:
Pauline Epistles to Apocalypse, and Gospel lections, in the Late Wycliffite Version
Scope & Content:
This is the second part of a two-volume set with biblical translations in Middle English (the first volume is Harley MS 6333/1). The first part contains a Wycliffite translation of Clement of Llanthony's Harmony of the Gospels, and the second part contains biblical books from the Later Wycliffit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

804. 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

805. Harley MS 6571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6571
Title:
Book for a Simple and Devout Woman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman, beginning: ‘Seynt Johon þe evangelist in his boke of pryvytes telleþ þat he saw a wondirful and a degysed beste come out of þe see þat haddde a body like to a libarde . ffeet as hit were of a bere prote as hit were of alyon and he hadde ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

806. Harley MS 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6573
Title:
Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2). Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

807. Harley MS 6579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6579
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-140r: Walter Hilton (d. 1396), an Austin monk at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, The Scale of Perfection.Beginning: 'Ghostly sister in ihesu crist I preie þe þat in þe calling whilke oure lord hath callid þe to his servise: þou halde þe paied and stond stedfastly þerinne'; opening...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

808. Harley MS 6580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6580
Title:
Speculum Christiani and Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-62r: Speculum Christiani. At the end the scribe writes 'Amen quod Rogerus' and directly after this in red, a rubricator writes 'Explicit liber de speculo christiani quod byrde' (f. 62r). ff. 62v-64v: Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro. Late 14th century Latin text on original flyl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

809. Harley MS 6613

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6613
Title:
Lanterne of Light
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1409-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

810. Harley MS 6615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6615
Title:
The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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