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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name Higden, Ranulf, d 1364, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/90633533 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 655

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 655
Title:
Ranulf Higden Polychronicon, to 1345, with additions including the Vita Merlini
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-13r: Alphabetical index to the Polychronicon. Incipit: 'Ad sub sequentis tabule noticiam . considerentur primo numeri foliorum'. the index includes references by book and chapter, and ends partway down column 1 of f. 13r, leaving the rest of the page ruled but blank. Explicit:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 1320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1320
Title:
The Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with a continuation to the death of Edward III (1377)
Scope & Content:
The Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364), with a continuation to the death of Edward III in 1377. Incipit: 'Post preclaros arcium scriptores quibus circa rerum noticiam ac morum modestiam dulce fuit'. Explicit: 'Explicit liber Septimus historie policronice'. An edition of the chronicle can b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 1707

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1707
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (to 1340)
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-223v): Polychronicon (to 1340) by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364). Incipit (f. 1r): 'Post preclaros arcium sc[ri]ptores'. Explicit (f. 223v): 'Sed tandem ob defectum pecunie quam sui segnes procuratores ab Anglia non miserant contractis treugis & inducijs inter Reges vtriusque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 1728

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1728
Title:
Polychronicon with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 1
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the first of two related volumes, Harley MS 1729 being the second. The text is primarily a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. An apparatus of slightly later date has been added to the beginning, in a different hand (items 1-3). Contents: 1. (f. 1v): List of the kings fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1729

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1729
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 2
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the second of two related volumes, Harley MS 1728 being the first. The text is a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398). Incipit (f. 1r): 'lunares qui gravidatis feminis deputantur . ita quod . quilibet mensis sit 30 dier...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 2261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2261
Title:
An anonymous English translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the only surviving copy of the anonymous second English translation of Ranulf Higden's (b. c. 1280, d. 1363) Polychronicon. The first English translation of the Polychronicon was by John of Trevisa (fl. 1402). This manuscript also includes verses by John Lydgate on the Kings o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3600

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3600
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with a continuation to the coronation of Henry VI in 1429
Scope & Content:
Contents: Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364), with a continuation to the coronation of Henry VI in 1429. Rubric (f. 2r): 'Incipit prologus primus in historiam policronicam'. Incipit (f. 2r): Post preclaros arcium scriptores quibus circa rerum noticiam aut morum modestiam dulce fuit'. Exp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 3671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3671
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with continuation to 1377
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-16v): Alphabetical table of contents to the Polychronicon, including not just names but brief descriptions of episodes and content, keyed to book and chapter numbers. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Aaron & Moses duces fuerunt populi Israel & obierunt . 2 . 14'. Explicit (f. 16v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter 14th cent to 1st quarter 15th cent
Extent:
1 parchment codex, 221 folios

10. Harley MS 3673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3673
Title:
Miscellany, including substantial excerpts from the Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a miscellany based, in its first half, on excerpts of the Polychronicon, starting with Books I and II and then including further excerpts added out of sequence and interspersed with supplemental material and other short pieces. The extensive Latin notes in the margin run throug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century, before 1466
Extent:
1 paper codex, 194 folios

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