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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2212
Title:: Part of an Ordinary of Arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Part of an Ordinary of Arms; with the arms of English persons and families drawn and tricked (20 per page). Decoration: Coats of arms in brown ink drawn and tricked in grids of printed escutcheons.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2221
Title:: Miscellany of English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents, with the date 1591. ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms (10 per page) of the English archiepiscopal and episcopal sees; with the arms of the archiepiscopal see of Dublin. ff. 4r-6r: Coats of arms (10 per page) of English cities, boroughs, and Calais. f. 7r: A li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1578-1591
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2222
Title:: Statutes and regulations of the Admiralty
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: 'Rules and orders to bee observed by all vice-admiralls aswell for the preservation of the Jurisdiction of the admiralty as for the better regulating the affaires and perquisites of the same for his Majesties profit and advantage'. ff. 3r-3v: 'Statuta contenta in Commissi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2247
Title:: Sermons in Middle English
Scope & Content:: Sermons. Marginal notes in Latin are in a number of hands, principally that of the main scribe. One English note (f. 1v) is in the hand of a reader. Frequent underlining within the text, probably by the scribe, highlights quotations and important names. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-2r): First Sunday...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2250
Title:: Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2251
Title:: Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460-1483
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2252
Title:: The Commonplace Book of John Colyns, including Ipomydon, B version, and the stanzaic Morte Arthur
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript comprises two booklets of Middle English poetry and prose (ff. 54-85, 86-133) that were compiled into one volume in the early 16th century by John Colyns (d. c. 1542), mercer, of the parish of St Mary Woolchurch Haw, London. The manuscript contains the unique copies o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253
Title:: Henri d'Acre, Miscellany of secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics'), including King Horn and the Follies of Fashion, and Psalms listed for recitation at certain times (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript divides in two parts. Part I (ff. 1r-48v) includes a collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French. Part II (ff. 49r-140v and 142r-142v, except for folio 52v) was written in c. 1330-1340 by the so-called 'Harley scribe' and contains a miscellany of texts including secu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v
Title:: Miscellany of (the 'Harley Lyrics')
Scope & Content:: Miscellany of texts including secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics') in English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. This part of the manuscript (except for folio 52v) was written by the so-called 'Harley scribe', active in or near Ludlow (Southern Shropshire) from 1314 to c. 1349...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1340
Extent:: 95 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2254
Title:: Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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