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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2371
Title:: John Mirk, Festial
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-141v: John Mirk, Festial (Group B version); beginning imperfectly towards the end of Advent and ending imperfectly with the opening of the Dedication of the Church; the sermon for the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been largely cut out (see ff. 73*-[73c]), and the remaini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2514
Title:: Papias, Ars grammatica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Papias, Ars grammatica. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including flowers and foliate motifs (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including flowers and foliate motifs (ff. 6r,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3828
Title:: Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This composite prayer-book with Middle Dutch and Latin texts consists of four distinct parts: two parts (ff. 1r-12v, and ff. 17r-75v) were made in Flanders (probably Bruges) in the 1440s; and two others (ff. 13r-16v, and ff. 76r-208r) in the Netherlands (probably North Brabant) in the 2nd half o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4070
Title:: Psalter in Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin verses at the beginning of each stanza. Contents: ff. 2r-123v: The Book of Psalms in verse, with a prologue, beginning ‘Ces [ver]s sunt de salu de[l] [ri]che rei ihesu nostre duz Avue’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4419
Title:: Lancelot du Lac
Scope & Content:: Contents: Lancelot du Lac, Part I, from the Lancelot-Grail or Prose Vulgate Cycle. Lancelot du Lac, also known as the Lancelot propre, is divided into 3 parts. Part I, beginning 'En la marche de Gaule', relates the birth and childhood of Lancelot and begins the chivalrous exploits of Arthur'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 169 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4909
Title:: Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-125r: Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores. f. 126r: Table of contents. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Large plain initials in blue and red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1474-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5295
Title:: Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with interlace and white vine decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 4v (with purple pen-flourishing), 44r, 46r, 107r, 110r). C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1069
Title:: Grants of arms and crests
Scope & Content:: Grants of arms and crests by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, and other heralds, in one hand. From f. 47v onwards, most of the arms and crests seem to have been granted by Robert Cooke; many of them have the dates of their grants or his name added to them. For a detailed list of the names, dates and he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706
Title:: Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1474-1524
Extent:: 216 folios.

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