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1381. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

1382. Harley MS 3810

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3810
Title:
A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:
A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes; late 14th-15th cent. Middle English and Latin. The MS. is composite and comprises three MSS. of different origin divided into two volumes. Its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1499
Extent:

2 volumes

1383. Harley MS 425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 425
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 10
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–145v: The tenth volume of the ecclesiastical historian John Foxe's papers. ff. 1r–2v: Part of a notable discourse for having the Bible in English, written about the time of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, c. 1410, taken ex fragmenta quodam Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. f. 3r: Subscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1384. Harley MS 6998

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6998
Title:
Letters and state warrants, 1591-1595
Scope & Content:
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1591-1595. Containing warrants for searching after and apprehending suspected persons, together with examinations and depositions concerning the hearing of mass, recusancy, treason and felony. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Edward Donne Lee to Serjeant Pucker...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591-1595
Extent:
1 volume

1385. Harley MS 275

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 275
Title:
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae, Incendium amoris, Commentarius in Iob seu Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes Piissimae; Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Jerome's translation of Origen’s Homilies on the Song of Songs; Speculum humanae salvationis; A Christmas Carol; A Latin treatise against divination and superstition; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological treatises in Latin and Middle English that was probably produced in a monastic environment. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae. ff. 12v-46r:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1386. Harley MS 2399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2399
Title:
Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:
The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1625
Extent:
1 item

1387. Harley MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 41
Title:
Description of royal ceremonies and related accounts, during the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: The names of the knights of the Bayn [i.e. Bath] made at the creation of Thomas Grey as Lord Marquis of Dorset in 1475. ff. 2r–11v: The receiving, conveying and coronation of Anne Boleyn. f. 12r: A sketch of the seating plan at Anne Boleyn's coronation. Anne is depicted wearing a closed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

1388. Harley MS 423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 423
Title:
John Foxe's papers, Volume 8
Scope & Content:
The eighth volume of papers belonging to John Foxe (1516/17–1587), martyrologist. Bought from John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer. f. 1r-1v: Paper on the mind and exposition of Martin Bucer, on Matthew 18[.7] (‘Woe be to the World, because of Offences’). ff. 2r-9v: Paper on the p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1389. Harley MS 6057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6057
Title:
Verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Crosse
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in various hands. Compiled mainly by Thomas Crosse in the 1630s, whose name appears in a poem, ‘An Acrostick upon my name’, at f. 1r. Later additions at ff. 63r-65r are dated 1677-1681. Contents include: f. 1*r: An acrostic poem on the name ‘Edward’ [deleted]. f. 1r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-c 1681
Extent:
1 volume

1390. Harley MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 278
Title:
Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
The Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter, revised under Henry VIII in 1522; for the printed edition see Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London 1672). Incipit: 'The statutis and ordynancys of the meoste noble ordre of say...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1522-c 1530
Extent:

1 volume

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