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3971. Harley MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
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

3972. Harley MS 1740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1740
Title:
Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3973. Harley MS 2569

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2569
Title:
Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem and Apophtegmata laconica; Guarino da Verona, Dedifferentia veri amici et adulatoris; Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-47r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem; introduced by a letter of Francesco Filelfo (b. 1398, d. 1481), to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (r. 1412, d. 1447). ff. 48r-75r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata laconica; translated by Francesco Filelfo and by Guarino da Verona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3974. 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

3975. Harley MS 7026/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7026/2
Title:
Facsimiles of medieval manuscript leaves and fragments, copied by Philip Sproson, with descriptions by Humfrey Wanley; Matthew Buchinger, calligraphic writings; facsimile of two leaves from the Codex Claromontanus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of two volumes that originally formed Harley MS 7026. The first volume is now Harley MS 7026/1, and contains the 'Lovell Lectionary'. The manuscript's original Harleian binding is now Harley MS 7026/3. Harley MS 7026/2 contains facsimiles of leaves and fragments f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3976. Harley MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3
Title:
John Mirfield, Breviarium Bartholomei, with glosses and recipes by John Dee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the medical work of John Mirfield [Johannes de Mirfeld] (d. 1407), an ecclesiastic and medical writer, and chaplain of the hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield, in London. Towards the end of his life he wrote two encyclopedic works in Latin, the so-called Florarium Bar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

3977. Harley MS 2511

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2511
Title:
Cicero, De natura deorum, De divinatione, and De fato; Plato, Timaeus
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of selected philosophical works by Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), Roman orator and philosopher. Contents: ff. 1r-88r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum. ff. 89r-121r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De divinatione. ff. 122r-156v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De fato. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1464
Extent:
1 volume

3978. Harley MS 3030

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3030
Title:
Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two commentaries on the Pauline epistles written respectively by Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254) and St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). This volume was produced in the 2nd half of the 11th century in Western Germany, perhaps Paderborn. Fragments from a 9th-century text of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3979. Harley MS 2408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2408
Title:
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland; John Bale, The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome; epitome of James VI and I, Basilikon Doron
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Latin chronicle from the Passion of Christ to the year 1559 [the reign of Queen Mary I]. f. 8r: A recipe in English, entitled: 'A medecyne for the knitting of a bone, strenghtning of a strayne, or stopping of a vayne within one'. ff. 8v-32r: John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 volume

3980. Harley MS 1005

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1005
Title:
Bury St Edmunds customary (‘Liber albus’)
Scope & Content:
Register known as ‘Liber albus’ (‘The White Book’): an inventory of charters, arranged under the headings Regum, Privilegia, Celeraria, Sacristia, de Camera, Elemosinar., De hospitali, Pitanciaria, De domo hospitum, De infirmaria, and Abbatia, each with numbered topographical subdivisions. Bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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