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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Bury St Edmunds, England Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 2255

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

2. Harley MS 2874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2874
Title:
Coniuratio malignorum spirituum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a previously unidentified copy of the Coniuratio malignorum spirituum, a book with instructions for exorcising demoniacs of which 30 editions were published in Rome and Italy between c. 1480 and c 1500. This appears to be the only extant English manuscript copy of the te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2977

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2977
Title:
Ordinal (‘Rituale’) of Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–50v: Ordinal of Bury St Edmunds, often called the ‘Rituale’: directions for services from Advent to 1 May (ends imperfect). Decoration: New sections open with a two-line Lombardic initial in red. The opening initial is in blue, with penwork decoration in red. Line drawings of grotesques...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 3027

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3027
Title:
Augustine of Hippo (and Pseudo-Augustine), various theological works; Prosper of Aquitaine, Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Vincentianarum; sermon collection with texts by Pseudo-Augustine, Pseudo-Eusebius and Origen; Paulinus of Aquileia, Liber Exhortationis ad Quendam Comitem
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century English manuscript contains a collection of sermons, and theological writings by and spuriously attributed to the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), and his disciple Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, c. 455). The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produced ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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