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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3865
Title:: Robert Henryson, Fables
Scope & Content:: A series of 13 verse fables with moralisations, and two prologues, containing altogether 2968 lines, arranged in 416 seven-line stanzas and 7 eight-line stanzas. The author, Robert Henryson, is thought to have composed this text during the 1470s (Ward, Catalogue of Romances (1893), II, 354), usi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1571
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7359
Title:: Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a Calendar, an illustrated account of the Passion of Christ with prayers, and a few short prayers to Christ and the Virgin Mary. The account of the Passion has been supplemented with details from sources that embellish the biblical account of Christ's suffe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2356
Title:: Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: the calendar, including Dominican feasts such as St Peter Martyr, St Hugh of Lincoln and the translation of St Dominic, as well as added obits and memoranda (see Provenance); ff. 9r-173r: the Psalter; ff. 173r-186v: the Canticles; ff. 186v-189r: the Athanasian Creed; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5036
Title:: Prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1590
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 130
Title:: A book of medicine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-4r: An index. ff. 4v-46v: A collection of medical recipes in various hands, beginning ‘A good powder for to Relaxe the bodye’; f. 32r features tables with the symbols of the planets and astrological signs, and a division over the hours of the day, introduced as ‘A perfect tab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 145
Title:: John de Fordun, Scoticronicon
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-56r: John de Fordun (b. 1360, d. c. 1384), Scoticronicon.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 370
Title:: Account book of Suffolk
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-25r: Account book of knight’s fees during the reign of Edward III (1346-1347) and Henry VIII (1539-1540). ff. 25r-40r: Fiefs of Huntingfield, Suffolk. ff. 40v-44v: Rental of knight’s fees of Bury St Edmunds in possession of Henry VIII, dated 1541. f. 45r: A list of ‘Nomin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 680
Title:: Letters from Mario Repetta
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A letter of Mario Repetta to Pietro Foscari. ff. 3r-32v: A letter or treatise of Mario Repetta to Luigi Mocenigo.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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