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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2392
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2411
Title:: George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2622
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum
Scope & Content:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum; title: 'M. Tulli Cicer. Incip. Paradoxa stoicorum. feliciter'; incipit: 'Animadverti brute sepe catonem'; imperfect at the end, explicit: 'et ego beatus sum cognante. Nec'. 13th-century glosses in the margins. Decoration: Initial in red at the beginni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3957
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones
Scope & Content:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, title (preface): 'VERBA SANCTISSIMI LITTERARUM PRINCIPIS HIERONIMI ADIURO TE QUICUNQUE HOS DESCRIPSERIS LIBROS...'; rubric: INCIPIT CRONICA EUSEBII HIERONIMI CUM SUPER ADDITIS PROSPERI PRAEFATIO HIERONIMI; incipit: 'Eusebius Hierominus Vincencio et Galieno...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4912
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 858
Title:: Vetera Statuta, Registrum Brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the statutes of the English kings from Magna Cartato the end of the reign of Edward II, known as the Vetera Statuta (ff. 1r-73v), followed by two copies of the Registrum Brevium (ff. 74r-119v and 120r-191v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1512
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, volume one of two, the second volume is Harley MS 1513. This volume includes the Temporale. ff. 1-2 are parchment flyleaves including late 15th or early 16th-century additions by Hugh Fletcher (according to Wanley, see Catalogue 1808). f. 1v: A poem in English, with a d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1513
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, second volume, the first volume is Harley MS 1512. This volume includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-40r: Psalter with Litanies. ff. 40r-41v: Office of the Dead added by a late 15th-century hand. ff. 42r-184r: Sanctorale. ff. 184r-199v: Common of the Saints. ff. 199...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2476
Title:: T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes eight commedies by T. Maccius Plautus, with marginal glosses: ff. 1r-21r: Amphitryon, rubric: 'Plauti poete comici clasissimi Prima comedia Amphytrio incipit Argumentum', incipit: 'In faciem vorsus Amphitrionis.' ff. 21r-36v: Ansinaria, rubric: 'Plauti comici comedia se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2588
Title:: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires
Scope & Content:: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires, incipit (prologue): 'Nec fonte labra prolui cabalino'; incipit (text): 'O curas hominum.' Decoration: 2 white vine ('bianchi girari') initials in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue and the Satira prima (f. 1r). Smaller coloured initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

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