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2451. Harley MS 3820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3820
Title:
William of Rimington, Stimulus peccatoris; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini and Meditationes; Pseudo-Augustine, Meditationes; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
One of the two surviving manuscripts from a reclusory at the Carthusian priory at Sheen in Surrey, now Richmond. The other manuscript is Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 77 ('Revelationes beate Brigitte libri duo'). Contents: f. 2*verso: A table of contents (‘Contenta’). ff. 1r-6r: A treat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2452. Harley MS 6523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6523
Title:
Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

2453. Harley MS 2618

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2618
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-89v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione; ff. 90r-168v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; ff. 169r-185r: Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium. f. 185v is blank. Decoration: 2 white vine initials in gold and colours with decoration extending into the margin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2454. Harley MS 3520/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3520/1
Title:
Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions
Scope & Content:
The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts. Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

2455. Harley MS 3744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744
Title:
Avicenna, Canon medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains books I, II, V, and IV of the medical summa by Ibn Sina, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (d. 1037), known in the West as Avicenna, in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis or Gerard of Cremona (circa 1113/4-1187). The volume is made up of two separate codicological ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

154 folios.

2456. Harley MS 1937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1937
Title:
Ceremonies of the Catholic Church; collection of George Bellin, ironmonger and clerk of Chester; Guido de Monte Rochen, Manipulus Curatorum; sermons by Thomas Watson
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript consisting of three separate parts. The first part (ff. 1r-116r) contains texts on the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, and was written down around 1600. The second part (ff. 102r-116r) contains a collection of thanksgivings, prayers, letters and medical recipes by Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1554-c 1617
Extent:
1 volume

2457. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2458. Harley MS 2347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2347
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous Collection of Medical texts and Recipes; late 15th cent., 13th cent. Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English. Partly imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Texts include: - A) Collection of medical and surgical recipes in Latin, Anglo-Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

2459. Harley MS 3919/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3919/1
Title:
A discourse written by Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, in defence of his marriage with Penelope Rich
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Charles Blount (b. 1563, d. 1606), 1st Earl of Devonshire, 'A discourse written by me Earle of Devonshire in defence of his marriage with the Lady Riche [Penelope Rich (b. 1563, d. 1607)]'. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. [vi]recto-[vi]verso: A fragmentary leaf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2460. Harley MS 4348

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4348
Title:
Scope & Content:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Apex physicae (attr.) and Imago mundi; late 12th-early 13th cent. Latin. Copies. This volume consists of two different MSS. It includes: - a) Honorius Augustodunensis (attr.), Apex physicae (ff. 1-67v; item 1); - b) Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi (ff. 68v-89)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

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