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4361. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4362. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4363. Harley MS 4725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4725
Title:
A theological miscellany including Usuard's Martyrology
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite codex comprising 8 parts made in different periods of time between the 12th and 14th century and assembled together at a later date. Parts 1-6 formed one volume some time at the beginning of the 15th century when the the table of contents was added (f. 2*v). Part 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4364. Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 525
Title:
The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4365. Harley MS 1294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1294
Title:
Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum; sermons by Peter Comestor and Hildebert of Lavardin; Allegories of the Old and New Testament; (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae. ff. 39r-40v: Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo. ff. 41r-87r: Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum (abridged selections) ff. 88r-89v: Part of Galand of Reigny [Galandus Regniacensis], De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4366. Harley MS 1917

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1917
Title:
Decretals of Gregory IX, with gloss of Bernard of Parma
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Decretals of Gregory IX compiled by Raymond of Peñafort, with the preface addressed to the university of Bologna (over an erasure), incipit: '[excised] episcopus servus servorum dei dilectis filius doctoribus et scolaribus universitatis [over an erasure] bononie. Rex pacificus'; en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1310
Extent:
1 volume

4367. Harley MS 3511

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3511
Title:
Verse miscellany of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631-1683), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1627-1677) and First Lord of the Treasury (1679). Containing various poems, many by anonymous authors. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Capell MS'. f.1* contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4368. Harley MS 6987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6987
Title:
Royal letters and warrants, 1621-1624
Scope & Content:
Royal letters and warrants, from the end of the reign of King James VI and I, 1621-1624. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King James VI and I to Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer. Sending a reminder to furnish George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, with 10,000 l. for his wife’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1621-1624
Extent:
1 volume

4369. Harley MS 6999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6999
Title:
Letters and state warrants, 1580-1581
Scope & Content:
Letters and state warrants, from the years 1580-1581. ff. 1r-2v: List of contents. f. 3r: Letter from Robert Bowes to Francis Walsingham. Reporting on the case of James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, and his adherents, and requesting advice as to whether he should travel to London to answer the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1580-1581
Extent:
1 volume

4370. Harley MS 1766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1766
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, an English translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait, with English marginal notes in red, in the same hand as the text. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Table of Contents t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1460
Extent:
Parchment codex.

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