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301. Harley MS 2897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2897
Title:
Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part 1 (ff. 154r-452v) is the summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearles and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which formed originally a single v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

302. Harley MS 4733

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4733
Title:
Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

303. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

304. Harley MS 6345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6345
Title:
Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1627
Extent:
1 volume

305. Harley MS 1319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1319
Title:
Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:
La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (ff. 1r-78v). Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (ff. 79r-80v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1401-1767
Extent:

1 volume

306. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

307. Harley MS 4425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4425
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
The text of the Roman de la Rose was begun around 1220, possibly by Guillaume de Lorris, and continued by Jean de Meun between 1269 and 1278. The text of this manuscript was copied from a printed edition published at Lyon, probably around 1487 (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
c 1490-c 1500
Extent:

Parchment codex

308. Harley MS 4431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4431
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Collected works ('The Book of the Queen')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript, known as 'The Book of the Queen', includes Works by Christine de Pizan, assembled for Isabel (Isabeau) of Bavaria, queen consort of Charles VI of France, and produced under the author's supervision. Possibly some passages are in the hand of Christine de Pizan herself. Formerly bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1414
Extent:

Parchment codex

309. Harley MS 6910

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6910
Title:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany
Scope & Content:
Elizabethan poetry miscellany, compiled between 1596 and 1600. Includes copies and extracts of works by: Michael Drayton; Edmund Spenser; George Chapman; Robert Southwell; Sir John Harington; Nicholas Breton; Sir Walter Ralegh; Thomas Lodge; Thomas Nashe; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1600
Extent:
1 volume

310. Harley MS 367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 367
Title:
Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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