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601. Harley MS 2252

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

602. Harley MS 2271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2271
Title:
A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-7v: An alphabetical table for the ensuing tract. ff. 8r-91v: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign; several of these were drawn up according to the usage and custom of the city of Exeter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

603. Harley MS 2276

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2276
Title:
Middle English sermon collection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Sixty sermons on the Sunday gospels, certain major feast-days in the Christmas season and Ascension, from the First Sunday in Advent to the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Translated from the 12th-century Latin Filius matris collection, with additional sermons not based on the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

604. Harley MS 2280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2280
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-98r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585), beginning: 'The double sorowe of troilus to tellen / Þat was þe kynge Priamus sone of Troye / In lovynge how hise avent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

605. Harley MS 2303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2303
Title:
The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

606. Harley MS 2318

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2318
Title:
Arthur Capell's prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: ‘Made by Docter Willet of Barle and by him sent to Sir Arthure Capell in his long sicknes’. ff. 2r-7v: ‘A frughtfull exhortation to a sicke person to prepare against his end’. ff. 8r-10r: ‘A prayer for one that is sick’. ff. 11r-13v: English prayers with biblical citatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600-1638
Extent:
1 volume

607. Harley MS 2326

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2326
Title:
Tristram Tirwhyt's council on military leadership and rules of war for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: A dedicatory letter by Tristram Tirwhyt to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his speciall good Lorde, Robert Erle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, of the moste noble orders of the Garter, and St Michael knight, one of the Quenes maiest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1577
Extent:
1 volume

608. Harley MS 2333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2333
Title:
Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s Colle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

609. Harley MS 2339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2339
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Rule of the Life of the Virgin Mary; Myrrour of Synners; The Three Arrows of Doomsday; treatise on the Three Estates; Song of Love of Jesus; William Lychefelde, Complaint of God
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prayer to Christ, beginning imperfectly due to the loss of a preceding folio: 'þere þi modir make þou þat þi love and þi charite; felowshippe me to þi modir'. ff. 2r-3r: A prayer to Christ, entitled: 'þis orisoun þat folowiþ is in mynde of ihesu cristis passioun'; beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

610. Harley MS 2341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2341
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-13r: Calendar featuring English saints; and with Thomas Becket's name inked out; featuring a rhyme in English on the number of days in twelve months (f. 3r), written in the same hand as the rest of the calendar: 'Thirti dayes hath November / April, June, and September / Of xxvi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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