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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v
Title:: Miscellany of (the 'Harley Lyrics')
Scope & Content:: Miscellany of texts including secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics') in English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. This part of the manuscript (except for folio 52v) was written by the so-called 'Harley scribe', active in or near Ludlow (Southern Shropshire) from 1314 to c. 1349...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1340
Extent:: 95 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2255
Title:: A collection of poems by John Lydgate
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of poetry by or attributed to John Lydgate (c. 1370-1449/50?), containing 45 Middle English poems, mostly religious. McCracken considered as Lydgate's all but two of the poems (Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas and A Satirical Description of his Lady), whose aut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r
Title:: Astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon'
Scope & Content:: An astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon', incipit: 'Notandum est that in eu..y(?) ingenient there ben 4 things to be sowght'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 8v-10r
Title:: Astrological diagrams and notes
Scope & Content:: Astrological diagrams and notes including diagrams of planetary spheres and tables of latitudes and the elevation of the sun.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 11r-29v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium, continuation of ff. 1r-8r. Includes rubrics as follows: 'Racio et climatum' (ff. 11r-11v); 'Off the nature and magnitude of cy [7] planets with the ordor of thebyns' (ff. 12r-12v); 'Off the debysion off the zodiack...' (ff. 13r); 'Off the disposicion of the xii signes' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 35r-50v
Title:: Astronomical tables with additional calendrical material
Scope & Content:: A text on reading astronomical tables, incipit: 'In as moche as it is dilectable be cuse of fortune...' (ff. 35r-35v) Astronomical tables (ff. 36v-48r) with additional calendrical material (ff. 49v-50v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 51r-61v
Title:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse'
Scope & Content:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse', incipit: 'Of the vicis of the mone and of hus ewyl'. Includes diagrams of astrological charts (ff. 58v-59v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 62r-87v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium, including: excerpts from Ptolemy and Albumazar in English, incipit: 'Every planett yt ys a bons', with an astrological chart (ff. 62r-63v), astrological charts (ff. 64r, 66r, 72r, 72v, 73v, 75r-78v, 79v, 80r-81v, 82v-83v, 86r, 87r) and notes, astrological tables (ff. 67r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

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