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4021. Harley MS 4747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4747
Title:
Gospels
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-2v: Calendar for the use of Coldingham priory, fragment: July-October (early 13th century). ff. 3r-58r: Four Gospels, with marginal Ammonian sections. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with foliate decoration in green, yellow and brown, at the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4022. Harley MS 1736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1736
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Miscellany including the Middle English Translation of John Bradmore, Philomena; mid 15th cent. (1446), with late 15th- and 16th-cent. additions. Middle English and Latin. The cataloguing of the MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust. The manuscript contains (ff. 6-184v) an anonymous t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1441-1451
Extent:
1 item

4023. Harley MS 3016

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3016
Title:
Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae and Sermones, Expositio super Missam, De querimonia et conflictu carnis et animae, and Vita metrica Sanctae Mariae Aegyptiacae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae and Sermones, beginning: 'Incipiunt epsitole domini hildeberti cenomannensis episcopi Guilelmo de campell'. ff. 52v-63v: Hildebert of Lavardin, Expositio super Missam. ff. 63v-68r: Hildebert of Lavardin, De querimonia et conflictu carni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4024. Harley MS 3224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3224
Title:
Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae; Forma dictandi; Richard de Bury, Philobiblon; Contra luxuriam; John of Limoges, Morale somnium Pharaonis
Scope & Content:
This volume once belonged to William Welde, a Benedictine, doctor of canon law, and Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury from 1387 until his death in 1405. Among the contents of the manuscript are copies of Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae (On the plaint of nature), a satire on the vices...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4025. Harley MS 3282

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3282
Title:
Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4026. Harley MS 3703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3703
Title:
Collection of alchemical works, including De compositione alchemiae; John Sawtry, De occulta philosophia; and Richardus de Salopia, De proportione elementorum
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript containing works on alchemy, comprising three parts that were produced separately but joined together shortly afterwards, as indicated by a 15th-century table of contents for the whole manuscript on f. 1v. Part 1: ff. 1-24; Part 2: ff. 25-40; Part 3: ff. 41-97. Contents:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

4027. Harley MS 3899

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3899
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (chronicle to the year 1239); Nicholas Trivet, Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt (chronicle from Edward I to the year 1307)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-62r Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (chronicle to the year 1239), beginning: 'Brittannia insularum optima in occidentali occeano inter gallam et hyberniam sita'. ff. 62r-107v: Nicholas Trivet, Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4028. Harley MS 5398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5398
Title:
Collection of religious texts, including Richard Rolle, De modo vivendi; sermons by Johannis Schyrborn, John Haynton, and Rainold of Gloucester; Tract on the Ten Sibyls; Speculum peccatoris; Richard of Saint-Victor, Benjamin minor; Formula Dictaminis; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum conscientiae, Contemplationes de passione Christi, Epistola de honestate morum, Meditiationes de miseria humane conditiones, and De ingratitudine
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: Poem on the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac: Est aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo / Libra que scorpio architenens capra urna que pisces / Semper quindenis ponuntur signa kalendis'; followed by a prose explanation on the Signs of the Zodiac. f. 2r: Mnemonic verse on the Kalenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4029. Harley MS 5087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5087
Title:
Edward VI's letters and declamations
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30v: ‘Epistolae Edouardi principis illustrissimi quas suopte marte composuit & scripsit anno aetatis sue nono.’ Forty-three letters written by Edward to Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, his tutor Richard Cox, Edward Seymour, and the King of Poland’s envoy. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1546-1553
Extent:
1 volume

4030. Harley MS 3371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3371
Title:
Collection of medical texts and recipes, including works by John of Arderne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical texts and recipes, including many works by the English practitioner John of Arderne (b. 1307, d. c. 1378). This collection has been identified as the exemplar used by the author of the Middle English translation of Arderne's works and other text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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