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Project / Collection Harley Collection Name Burgh, Benedict, clerk and translator, d in or before 1483, http://isni.org/isni/000000... Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 43

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Harley MS 43
Title:
Benedict Burgh, Cato Major; Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, translated into English by John Walton; William Cornysh, A Treatise between Enformacione and Musyke; A Balade of Trouthe (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae: translated by John Walton; with the Latin text in the margins added at a later stage; possibly by Thomas Chaundler up to f. 29v. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 3r-3v: Benedict Burgh, Cato Major (imperfect); w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 116
Title:
An English miscellany including Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes; The Short Charter of Christ; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato and Cato Major; anonymous Middle English poems and poems by John Lydgate; Gottfried von Franken, Godfridus Super Palladium (Middle English translation); Nicholas Bollard, The Book of Planting and Grafting
Scope & Content:
This collection of Middle English and Latin poems and treatises is datable to after 1461 as the anonymous Chronicle presents Edward IV as king of England. A later hand (early 16th century) added a table of contents (f. 1* verso) and a few medical recipes (ff. 167v-168r, 169r). The cataloguing of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 172

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Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 4733

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Harley MS 4733
Title:
Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume