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1341. Harley MS 2255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2255
Title:
A collection of poems by John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetry by or attributed to John Lydgate (c. 1370-1449/50?), containing 45 Middle English poems, mostly religious. McCracken considered as Lydgate's all but two of the poems (Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas and A Satirical Description of his Lady), whose aut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1470
Extent:

1 volume

1342. Harley MS 2257

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2257
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 6208...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1343. Harley MS 2259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2259
Title:
Richard Strangways, Tractatus nobilis de lege et exposicione armorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: An introduction and table of contents, beginning ‘Pensa, Successor, in tui cordis oraculo de primo Predecestore, qui hoc nobile ex pluribus libris aggregatum si dici possit non minus se ipso predilexit’. ff. 7v-10r: Lists of names of nobility that came with William the Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1455
Extent:
1 volume

1344. Harley MS 2260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2260
Title:
William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-183v: William of Nassington [Nassyngton], Speculum Vitae (Mirror of Life); Middle English translation with marginal headings in Latin; imperfect at the beginning (DIMEV 423-29). Decoration: Numerous 2-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1345. Harley MS 2261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2261
Title:
An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1346. Harley MS 2267

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2267
Title:
A manual of ritual magic
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-37v: A manual of ritual magic, copied from another late 16th-century manuscript, including sections for making the 'Pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ' (f. 1v); amulets for conjuring good and evil angels entitled 'What things are attributed to the planets' (ff. 2r-10v); 'On bin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

1347. Harley MS 2268

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2268
Title:
Collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite and miscellaneous volume possibly put together for Thomas Spofford, abbot of St Mary's abbey at York (el. 1405) and bishop of Hereford (el. 1421), who retired at St Mary's Abbey in 1448 and died there in 1456 (see O'Mara, Four Middle English Sermons (2002), pp. 19-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1348. Harley MS 2269

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2269
Title:
Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:
An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1349. Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r
Title:
Astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon'
Scope & Content:
An astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon', incipit: 'Notandum est that in eu..y(?) ingenient there ben 4 things to be sowght'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
8 folios.

1350. Harley MS 2269, ff 8v-10r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2269, ff 8v-10r
Title:
Astrological diagrams and notes
Scope & Content:
Astrological diagrams and notes including diagrams of planetary spheres and tables of latitudes and the elevation of the sun.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
3 folios.

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