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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1701
Title:: Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne; Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord and the Hours of the Passion; King Robert of Sicily; a mass against the plague
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Robert Mannyng [Robert Mannyng of Brunne] (d. in or after 1338), Handlyng Synne, a Middle English translation of the Anglo-Norman French Manuel des pechiez, attributed to William of Waddington (late 13th century) [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 778], enti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1703
Title:: William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1704
Title:: Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706
Title:: Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1474-1524
Extent:: 216 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1500
Extent:: 93 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1720
Title:: Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum of Georg Joachim Rheticus, b. 1514, d. 1574) (original name Georg Joachim De Porris, or Von Lauchen), Austrian astronomer and mathematician. An earlier, simplier version of the work was published in 1551 in Leipzig.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-1596
Extent:: 274 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1485
Extent:: 52 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:: Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:: Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1484
Extent:: 8 folios

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