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831. Harley MS 4154

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4154
Title:
Collection of theological sayings
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1r-68v: Theological compendium, consisting of theological sayings, beginning with: 'Credendum est esse unum aliquid quod est quicquid alius est'; ending with: 'Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (upper margin): 'Anselmi, Sola sap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

832. Harley MS 4166

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4166
Title:
Collection of tracts on geomancy, onomancy and onomeirancy; a tract on ars memoriae; instructions for making fires and candles
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains a collection of seven parts that were written separately in the 14th and 15h century. The first part (ff. 1r-51v) contains two untitled geomantic works that were copied in the 15th century. The second part (ff. 52r-70v) contains another geomantic work that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

833. Harley MS 4172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4172
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Sacerdos parochialis and De Festis Duplicibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains various items that appear to have been compiled for the use of a priest. The first part (ff. 1r-63r) contains one of the seven extant copies of the Sacerdos parochialis, a manual for parish priests in Middle English and Latin, including tracts on the Pater noster, Ave Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

834. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
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

835. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

836. Harley MS 4203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4203
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’); featuring Latin rubrics, and a co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

837. Harley MS 4222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4222
Title:
Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Collection of orders and laws for the management of the Royal Mint, written in different hands. Includes instructions for making money (ff. 1r-20r), 'An ordinaunce for measures and weightes owte of magna carta' (f. 21r); a document relating to Martin Bowes (b. 1496/7, d....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

838. Harley MS 4239

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4239
Title:
Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25v: 'Leges sive Statuta Cantabrigiensis, Academiae' (dated 26 March 1573); with the names of William Cecil, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1559, Andrew Perne, Vice-Chancellor, and the Masters of the colleges at the end. Decoration: The heraldic achievement o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1628 and 1649
Extent:
1 volume

839. Harley MS 4242

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4242
Title:
Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa; Life and Miracles of St Thomas of Canterbury; Miracles of St Wulfsige of Evesham
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript comprises two different parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-64v) features a previously unnoticed fragment of the Passion of St Vincent of Saragossa (f. 1r), and a copy of the Life and Miracles of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1v-64v), both from the first half of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

840. Harley MS 4243

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4243
Title:
Collection of historical tracts and letters from the reigns of Henry VIII, Mary I and Philip II, and Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: List of payments. f. 1r: 'The chardge of a toun of wine'. f. 1v: 'The accompt of all the rentes and revenues of King Phillip yerelie due to him as they were given up Anno domini 1562'. f. 1v: The great expenses of King Phillip Anno domini 1562'. ff. 2r-2v: Lists of paym...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1589
Extent:
1 volume

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