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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273
Title:: Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:: A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1349
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle; Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:: The third unit of the manuscript includes: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (ff. 86r-102v), Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers (ff. 103r-110r); Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams (ff. 110v-112v); Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever (f. 11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 26 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour, Robert Grosseteste, Rules, and other text including charms.
Scope & Content:: The second unit of the manuscript includes: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love) (ff. 70r-81r); Robert Grosseteste, Rules (ff. 81r-85r); Rules of Friendship or La Diffinission de Amurs (ff. 85r-85v); Charm against wounds (f. 85v) and Charm for bloodletting (f. 85v). Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (Chronique de Charlemagne), incipit: 'Cj comence le stoire qui / Turpin le ercevesque / de reins'. For the text see Walpole 1976; listed with other four copies in Shepherd 1996. Decoration: Initials in red or blue. 2 drawings of hybrids in brown ink (ff. 95v, 102v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 70r-81r
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour
Scope & Content:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love), incipit: 'Tote gent desirent par nature a saver'. Decoration: The text is illustrated with ink drawings: Author talking to a woman; Author teaching; Author at work; Author presenting his book to a woman (f. 70r); Knights on horseback...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 12 folios.

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