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2. Harley MS 3828
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3828
- Title:
- Middle Dutch prayer-book
- Scope & Content:
- This composite prayer-book with Middle Dutch and Latin texts consists of four distinct parts: two parts (ff. 1r-12v, and ff. 17r-75v) were made in Flanders (probably Bruges) in the 1440s; and two others (ff. 13r-16v, and ff. 76r-208r) in the Netherlands (probably North Brabant) in the 2nd half o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1440-c 1500
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Harley MS 494
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 494
- Title:
- Anne Bulkeley's prayer-book
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r-v: Elevation prayer, beginning ‘I do salute the moste holy body’. ff. 2r-4r: Latin prayers on the Five Joys, beginning ‘laudo amo adoro’, based on the Liber Specialis Gratiae, I.19. ff. 4r-4*r: Latin prayers for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, beginning ‘Veni sancte spiritus’....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1532-1535
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4. Harley MS 6670
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6670
- Title:
- Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1434
- Extent:
-
1 volume
5. Harley MS 436
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 436
- Title:
- Cartulary of Wilton Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1*r-v: a letter in the hand of George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop and antiquary, addressed to Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), recording his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724). f. 2*r: a note concerning the ownership of the manuscript by the Earl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- Middle of the 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
6. Harley MS 3661
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3661
- Title:
- The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, French, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1482
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. 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
8. Harley MS 3432
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3432
- Title:
- The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 1725
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1725
- Title:
- Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden,...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 2920
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2920
- Title:
- Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
