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1441. Harley MS 2379

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2379
Title:
Tracts on vices and virtues; Speculum Christiani; Gospel harmony; De Spiritu Guidonis; Speculum sacerdotum; William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis; The Gret Sentence; theological verses and notes; Decretum abbreviatum; Pseudo-Bonaventura, Dieta Salutis; Tabulae Dieta Salutis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A collection of Latin tracts on vices, virtues and catechesis, entitled ‘vinea domini de cibu anime’; featuring excerpts from the Cibus Anime. ff. 57r-70v: Speculum Christiani, featuring Middle English verse on f. 62v (‘Whose wyll have helle / he must do as we hym telle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1442. Harley MS 2380

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Harley MS 2380
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and charms, with four religious songs in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Table of contents, beginning: 'Pro capite Dolor capitis [later addition] / For wert and vanite in þe hed', followed by additional entries by a 17th-century hand. ff. 6r-61v, 63v-64v. Collection of over 250 medical recipes in Middle English, inconsistently numbered (ff. 6-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1443. Harley MS 2381

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:
Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1444. Harley MS 2383

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2383
Title:
English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Speculum Sacerdotis (Speculum Edwardi), imperfect at the beginning; ending ‘Explicit speculum Edwardi quod Simon Smyht [sic] et inde testimonium peribet [sic] dominus iohannes mydwyntyr’. ff. 15v-24v: Liber Bonitatis, beginning ‘Sacerdos dicit Domine labia Deus in adiuto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1445. Harley MS 2384

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2384
Title:
Euprepia puerpera
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Euprepia Puerpera, a devotional tract on the name of the Virgin, said to be have been 'edited' by 'Monede', beginning: 'Maria mater dei appellatur' and ending: 'Explicit libellus de nomine Virginis Marie, qui vocatur Euprepia puerperal editus a Monede propter amorem matris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1446. Harley MS 2385

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2385
Title:
Middle English treatises and Latin sermons; Richard of Saint-Victor, Epistola ad Severinum de Caritate; Vita Secundi philosophi; a collection of miracles and exempla
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises five different parts that were produced separately in England. Part 1 (ff. 2r-8v) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. 11r-25v) was written around the mid or in the second half of the 15th century. Parts 3 (ff. 26r-31v) and 4 (ff. 32r-36v)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

1447. Harley MS 2386

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2386
Title:
Various historical texts; the Brut Chronicle in Latin; John Mandeville's Travels; a metrical romance in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-9v: A chronicle of British and English kings from the Viking invasions down to the coronation of King Henry IV. f. 10r: two notes about England. f. 10v: a short tract about calculating wheat measures at the Exchequer and converting into English measures. f. 11r: a note about...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1448. Harley MS 2387

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2387
Title:
Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-129v: Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis (Ladder of Perfection); imperfect, the first two parts only. With the opening rubric: ‘Here bygynyth þe boke þat is I clepyde scale perfeccionis and it haþ twey partes’; beginning: ‘Gostly broþer in Ihesu crist I preye þe þat in þe cally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1449. Harley MS 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2388
Title:
Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:
This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1450. Harley MS 2390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2390
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Compendium; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Partly copy. Imperfect. The compendium contains texts relating to medicine and the regimen of health in Latin and Middle English, interspersed with collections of medical recipes (ff. 57v-58v, 59v-72, 75, 76-91v, 100v-102v, 107-108v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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