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4341. Harley MS 6576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6576
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis; Latin translation by Thomas Fishlake (fl. 1377). ff. 128r-136r: Liber Vitae, beginning: 'De hiis que primo consideranda sunt tendenti ad perfeccionem contemplationis et ad vitam religiosam'. ff. 136v-138v: John Chrysostom, De eo quod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4342. Harley MS 6577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6577
Title:
Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi; Pseudo-Augustine, De visitatione infirmorum; Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam; Epistola beate marie ad sancti ignatium; Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastoralis; Bona Expositio Orationis Dominicae; Divisio Symboli Apostoli; Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Gregory the Great, Homilies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), De visitatione infirmorum [here entitled: ‘de consolatione infirmorum’] (On the Visitation of the Sick). f. 46r: A letter of St Ignatius to the Virgin Mary and her reply (‘Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam’; ‘Epistola beat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1454
Extent:

1 volume

4343. Harley MS 6578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6578
Title:
Petrus Riga, Aurora
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-147r: Petrus Riga, Aurora. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: The Gospel of Nicodemus, fragment; written in the late 12th or early 13th century. ff. 3*recto-3*verso: An unidentified theological text about sins; added in the 13th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4344. Harley MS 6579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6579
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-140r: Walter Hilton (d. 1396), an Austin monk at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, The Scale of Perfection.Beginning: 'Ghostly sister in ihesu crist I preie þe þat in þe calling whilke oure lord hath callid þe to his servise: þou halde þe paied and stond stedfastly þerinne'; opening...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4345. Harley MS 6580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6580
Title:
Speculum Christiani and Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-62r: Speculum Christiani. At the end the scribe writes 'Amen quod Rogerus' and directly after this in red, a rubricator writes 'Explicit liber de speculo christiani quod byrde' (f. 62r). ff. 62v-64v: Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro. Late 14th century Latin text on original flyl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4346. Harley MS 6581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6581
Title:
Index scriptorum ecclesiasticorum; Index Haeresiarcharum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Index scriptorum ecclesiasticorum ab anno Nativitatis 63 usque ad annum 1440. ff. 30r-31v: Index of authors. ff. 32r-123r: Index Haeresiarcharum. ff. 124r-125r: Index of authors.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4347. Harley MS 6582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6582
Title:
Theological notes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-172r: A collection of notes on theological subjects, organised alphabetically. ff. 173r-173v: An index of subjects.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4348. Harley MS 6592

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6592
Title:
Copies of William Flower, Visitation of Northumberland (1575), and William Flower and Robert Glover, Visitation of Derbyshire (1569); pedigrees and arms from Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript predominantly contains pedigrees and arms of families in Durham, Derbyshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. The main part (ff. 2r-67v) was written by William Wyrley (b. 1565, d. 1613) between 1590 and 1592; the additions (ff. 68r-116r) appear to have been made a few...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

4349. Harley MS 6613

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6613
Title:
Lanterne of Light
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1409-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

4350. Harley MS 6615

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6615
Title:
The Chastising of God's Children; Walter Hilton, Eight Chapters on Perfection (extract); Bridget of Sweden, Liber celestis revelacionum (extract, English translation); William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (First English translation); Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (extract); The Lay Folk's Catechism; William Flete, De remediis contra temptationes (Second English translation)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the twelve surviving copies of the Middle English Chastising of God's Children, an anonymous devotional text from the late 14th or early 15th century that was designed to provide guidance to religious women in contemplation and the discernment of spirits. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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