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1461. Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:
Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
50 folios.

1462. Harley MS 2407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2407
Title:
Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1463. Harley MS 2409

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2409
Title:
Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1464. Harley MS 2411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2411
Title:
George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

1465. Harley MS 2412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2412
Title:
Thomas Legge, Richard Tertius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the eleven extant copies of Richardus Tertius, a play about King Richard III by the Cambridge playwright Thomas Legge (b. c. 1535, d. 1607). Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Thomas Legge, Richardus Tertius, here entitled: ‘Richardus Tertius – Tragedia in tres actiones div...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

1466. Harley MS 2413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2413
Title:
Heraldic manual
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts concerning the rights and duties of royal heralds, how to hold events like tournaments and aristocratic funerals, and the precedence of nobles at state occasions. It was probably created for the use of a royal herald. Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Rules of precedence for dukes, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

1467. Harley MS 2415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2415
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
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 quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1468. Harley MS 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2417
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1469. Harley MS 2418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2418
Title:
Sermons
Scope & Content:
A volume of 100 anonymous sermons, beginning and ending imperfectly. Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Sermons 4-7, beginning imperfectly. ff. 14r-132v: Sermons 8-103, in a different hand, ending imperfectly. 1 parchment stub between ff. 60 and 61 and 1 between ff. 130 and 131. Decoration: Initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Mid 13th century

1470. Harley MS 2420

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2420
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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