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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 85-85v
Title:: Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs)
Scope & Content:: Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs), incipit: 'Ky veut verrei amur aver il deit'. For the text see T. Hunt, 'Anglo-Norman Rules of Friendship', French Studies Bulletin, 30 (1989), 9-11.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v
Title:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever
Scope & Content:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (Chronique de Charlemagne), incipit: 'Cj comence le stoire qui / Turpin le ercevesque / de reins'. For the text see Walpole 1976; listed with other four copies in Shepherd 1996. Decoration: Initials in red or blue. 2 drawings of hybrids in brown ink (ff. 95v, 102v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 103r-110r
Title:: Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers
Scope & Content:: Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers; incipit: 'Ceo sunt les auctoritees. Seint / Gregoyre le pape'. For the text see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 672, 772, 781, 891, 951,
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 110v-112v
Title:: Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:: Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams, followed by a prose text relating to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; incipit: 'En le nun Jhesu crist. Ci comence une me/ditacion'. For the texts see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 635, 861. Decoration: Initials in red. Two diagrams in red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 113r-190v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés
Scope & Content:: William of Waddington, Manuel des pechiez; Rubric 'Le prologe del manuel des pechiez', incipit: 'La vertue del seint espirit'. Last section (ff. 181v-191v) copied by the Ludlow scribe and compiler, including (ff. 190v-191r) a table of venial and mortal sins. An edition of the text from the prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 77 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 191v-198v
Title:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice; incipit: 'Ici comence purgatorie seint patric / [P]ur la bone gent conforter'. Written by the Ludlow scribe in collaboration with another scribe who copied lines 373-550: see C. Revard 1970. For the text and the manuscript see Vising 1916.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1314-1329
Extent:: 8 folios followed by 1 blank folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 1r-13v
Title:: Thyrtty Days of the Mone
Scope & Content:: Thyrtty Days of the Mone, a thirty-day lunary (i.e. prognostication) in verse, incipit: 'God þat alle þis world hays wrout3', explicit: 'yef þou wylt3 bledum weyn blod'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v
Title:: Prophecies of Esdras
Scope & Content:: Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 16v-28v
Title:: Cookery recipes
Scope & Content:: Cookery book (70 recipes); imperfect at the end. Title 'A tarte of fysche', incipit: 'Tak fyggys and reysingis and cynig', breaking off at 'ton wyt þe to3ere and onyouns mynced in þe'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

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