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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 682
Title:: Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1439-1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 701
Title:: Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Monasteria dissoluta in comitatibus Norff. Suff. Cantabr. Hunt. Hertf. Essex. Midd. et Civitat. Londone. Anno xxxvjto Henrici viij [...] .1544.’. ff. 3r-97v: ‘Valores omnium et singulorum Dominiorum, Maneriorum, Rectoriarum, Pensionum, Porcionum, ac aliarum te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1544
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 825
Title:: Letters of Ephraim Pagitt, author of Christianography, 1635, to the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, one jointly and one each individually, in Greek and Latin drafts and one draft in English (with four other letters). Partly autograph (ff. 4, 8, 10, 16, 22, 26) and partly scribal copies with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1638
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866
Title:: Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, f 48v
Title:: A treatise on chiromancy [imperfect], incipit: 'Benedictus Deus omnipotens qui machinam mundanam...'
Scope & Content:: Includes the beginning of a treatise on chiromancy. The same text is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 607.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:: Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r
Title:: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones.
Scope & Content:: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title: 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae.
Scope & Content:: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae, an allegorical poem reflecting12th-century knowledge of natural sciences.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r
Title:: A treatise on rhetoric, incipit: 'Hiis visis ad colores primo accedendum...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric, entitled in the colophon 'tractatus de arte dictandi' (f. 48r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 875
Title:: William Langland, Vision of Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: a title ‘VERBA (?) [LATINA]’. f. 1*verso: Latin excerpts (partially legible) from an etymological dictionary. One excerpt (‘Delubra diceba[n]t[ur] [ve]t[er]es templa fontes h[aben]cia in quibus an[te] i[n]g[re]ssu[m] [diluebantur] un[de] diceban[tur] delubra a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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