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71. Harley MS 2259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2259
Title:
Richard Strangways, Tractatus nobilis de lege et exposicione armorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: An introduction and table of contents, beginning ‘Pensa, Successor, in tui cordis oraculo de primo Predecestore, qui hoc nobile ex pluribus libris aggregatum si dici possit non minus se ipso predilexit’. ff. 7v-10r: Lists of names of nobility that came with William the Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1455
Extent:
1 volume

72. 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

73. Harley MS 2436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2436
Title:
Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 14th-century collection of sermons for saints' feast days (ff. 17r-168v), with sermons added in the 15th century at the beginning (ff. 1r-14v). Contents: ff. 1r-14v: A collection of sermons; with a previously unrecorded Middle English verse translation of Latin tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

74. Harley MS 2745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2745
Title:
Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula; (Pseudo)-Ovid, poems; Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis; florilegia of Classical and French authors; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia; Ovid, Metamorphoses (florilegium); Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula; the second part, which should follow the first part on ff. 153r-160v. ff. 31v-46v: (Pseudo-)Ovid, Collection of poems (De nuce, De somno, De cuculo, De pulice, De anulo, De medicamine aurium, De philomena, De lupo, De mirabilibus mundi, De medicam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

75. Harley MS 2867

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2867
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: a prayer inscribed in pencil on a piece of paper pasted onto a front flyleaf, beginning 'Curage desperas peccatis territus ullis', perhaps 17th century. ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French, with added Arabic numerals, perhaps 17th century. ff. 14r-20v: Gospel readings. ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1420s
Extent:
1 volume

76. Harley MS 2868

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2868
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Suffrage to St Barbara, with the rubric: ‘Quicumque factum sancte barbare animam celebraverit et cotidie hanc memoracionem et oracionem martirii eiusdem subsequentem bene et devote dixerit multa tormenta corporis per eius intercessionem evadet et absque confessione et vera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

77. Harley MS 2893

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2893
Title:
Gospel lectionary with collects, collections of prayers, blessings, masses and a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A collect for Christmas: ‘Deus qui hanc sacratissimam noctem veri luminis fecisti illustratione clarescere . da quaesumus ut cuius lucis misteria in terra cognovimus . eius quoque gaudijs in celo perfruam[ur]. Qui tecum’. ff. 1v-7r: A Calendar with astronomical tables on ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

78. Harley MS 2916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2916
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Troyes (with a Parisian calendar)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Ownership inscription (see Provenance). ff. 3r-14v: Calendar, in French. ff. 15r-19r: Gospel readings (imperfect at the beginning). ff. 19v-22v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 23r-25r: 'O intemerata'. ff. 26r-79v: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 80r-84r: Hours of the Cross. ff. 84v-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

79. Harley MS 2917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2917
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar in French (ff. 2r-12v). ff. 1v, 55r-v, 92r-v, 110v, 114r-v, 118r-v are blank. Decoration: 22 small calendar miniatures in the lateral foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 2-12v); 2 small miniatures for August missing after f. 8. 10 full-page...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c.1480-c.1490
Extent:
1 volume

80. Harley MS 2922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2922
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rouen
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-2: Parchment flyleaves with inscriptions (see Provenance). ff. 3r-14v: Calendar, in French, Use of Rouen, including the feast of St Romanus of Rouen ('Romain') in gold (23 October), and the octave of St Romanus (30 October). ff. 15r-19v: Gospel readings. ff. 19v-23r: 'Obse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume