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1. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

2. Harley MS 670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 670
Title:
Formulary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Forms for indentures and ordinations, including a Middle English lettter of William Waynflete (b. c. 1400, d. 1486), Bishop of Winchester, dated to 1449. ff. 3r-10r: Thomas Merke, Ars dictandi. ff. 11r-36v: A collection of canon law texts for use in Oxford. ff. 37r-42v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2925

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2925
Title:
Expositio sequentiarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-92r: Expositio sequentiarum; imperfect due to loss of folios, with the first complete instruction beginning: 'ista sequencia cantatur secunda dominica adventus domini'; ending: 'Expliciunt Sequencie bene exposite'. ff. 92r-92v: A glossary, mainly in Latin but occasionally in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 6641

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6641
Title:
Jack Upland
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Jack Upland. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), A note 'On the preface to Urry's edition of Chaucer'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. 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

6. Harley MS 953

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 953
Title:
Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of more than fifty extant copies of the Pore Caitif, a late 14th-century Middle English compilation of religious instructions for the laity. The compilation includes tracts on the Apostles' Creed, Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, the virtues of Patience, Temptation, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1000

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1000
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. 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

9. Harley MS 1730

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1730
Title:
Wycliffite sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The manuscript contains a few additions: Margi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2279

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2279
Title:
Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-146r: The Brut Chronicle down to King Edward III, imperfect at the end. [ff. 1v, 2r, 2v, 146v are blank]. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 2r: a dedicatory note in verse, beginning: 'Liber in excusatione Mittensis et defensione ipsius'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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