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1501. Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
93 folios.

1502. Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
118 folios.

1503. Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:
Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:
Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1484
Extent:
8 folios

1504. Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
Title:
John Crophill, Notebook
Scope & Content:
John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1456-1485
Extent:
17 folios

1505. Harley MS 1790, ff 2r-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1790, ff 2r-8v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Richard Byfield, Speech in praise of rhetoric, delivered at Oxford, 3 Dec. 1657.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

7 folios

1506. Harley MS 1790, ff 9r-44r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1790, ff 9r-44r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Extracts from Plotinus and Ficino's translation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

36 folios

1507. Harley MS 1790, ff 102v-130v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1790, ff 102v-130v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Extracts from Plato in Greek and Latin. Taken from Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Theages, Theaetetus, Sophista, Phaedrus. Reversing the volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

29 folios

1508. Harley MS 1803, ff 1-31v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1803, ff 1-31v
Title:
Maximos Margounios, Bishop of Cythera, Letter of dedication and preface to Brevis tractatus de consiliis (1602) Latin and Greek Printed. Imperfect, lacking beginning of letter in Greek
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1602-1627
Extent:
1 item

1509. Harley MS 1811, ff 1r-2v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 1r-2v
Title:
Antiphonary or breviary (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Leaves from an antiphonary or a breviary were used as flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript. The leaves at the beginning start with chants for 1st and 2nd Sunday in Lent. Space was left for a musical notation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

1510. Harley MS 1811, ff 3r-33v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 3r-33v
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar
Scope & Content:
The astronomical calendar composed by Nicholas of Lynn (fl. 1386–1411), Carmelite friar and astronomer of Oxford. A note, by Thomas Allen, (1540?–1632), mathematician and antiquary of Gloucester Hall, Oxford (f. 31r), according to the Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808), reads: 'Hoc calenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
After 1387-early 15th century
Extent:
31 folios.

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