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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1728
Title:: Polychronicon with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first of two related volumes, Harley MS 1729 being the second. The text is primarily a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. An apparatus of slightly later date has been added to the beginning, in a different hand (items 1-3). Contents: 1. (f. 1v): List of the kings fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1729
Title:: Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 2
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second of two related volumes, Harley MS 1728 being the first. The text is a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398). Incipit (f. 1r): 'lunares qui gravidatis feminis deputantur . ita quod . quilibet mensis sit 30 dier...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1730
Title:: Wycliffite sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The manuscript contains a few additions: Margi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1731
Title:: Prick of Conscience; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-132v: Prick of Conscience. ff. 134r-148v: Speculum Gy de Warewyke (also entitled Speculum Mundi and Speculum utile istius mundi). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: two inscriptions on pieces of parchment: ‘Ryght honorable and most worthy’, added in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1732
Title:: A collection of various theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: A collection of various theological and polemical texts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1733
Title:: Miscellaneous tracts
Scope & Content:: Various tracts formerly belonging to Henry Worsley, bound together. Bound in a different order from that described in the printed catalogue of 1808, and re-foliated. ff. 1-10*: Some law cases, with notes. In law French. Folios 1 and 10* are parchment wrappers (formed of manuscript waste, namel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1485
Extent:: 52 folios.

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1736
Title:
Scope & Content:: Medical Miscellany including the Middle English Translation of John Bradmore, Philomena; mid 15th cent. (1446), with late 15th- and 16th-cent. additions. Middle English and Latin. The cataloguing of the MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust. The manuscript contains (ff. 6-184v) an anonymous t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1441-1451
Extent:: 1 item

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