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1171. Harley MS 936

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 936
Title:
A collection of statutes, with a calendar
Scope & Content:
A collection of statutes, including a calendar, dating from after 1311 (see f. 231r). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: A calendar. ff. 7r-8r: A table of contents. ff. 8r-14v: A table of the Magna Carta clauses. ff. 15r-25v: Edward I's 1297 Magna Carta. ff. 25v-30v: Edward I's Charter of the Fore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1311-c 1350
Extent:
1 volume

1172. Harley MS 937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 937
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. It was apparently made for the sons of a northern noble family. This is the only known surviving almanac of its kind written in Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430-1431
Extent:
10 folios, folded into six parts.

1173. Harley MS 939

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 939
Title:
Notebook of Richard Symonds containing movements of the royal army, September – November 1644, with copies of documents relating to the case of the Lord Wilmot, and church notes
Scope & Content:
Notebook of Richard Symonds written while accompanying the King and the royal army from leaving Cornwall, 5 September 1644 to 23 November 1644. Records the progress of the army and principal events. Interspersed with documents relating to the case of the Lord Wilmot, and notes on church monument...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1644-Nov 1644
Extent:
1 volume

1174. Harley MS 940

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 940
Title:
Middle English translations of the Pauline Epistles; Acts of the Apostles; Catholic Epistles; and Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Middle English translations of the biblical books of the Pauline Epistles to the Revelations, from the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible. Contents: ff. 2r-97v: The Pauline Epistles, begins imperfectly with the Epistle to the Romans. ff. 98r-147v: The Acts of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1175. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1176. Harley MS 941, f 26v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, f 26v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (six recipes). Title underlined in red 'For passey or þe failyng yvyl', incipit: 'Ys gode to drynk ys own / water ix daes et in quantity'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

1177. Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v
Title:
De origine gigantum
Scope & Content:
De origine gigantum, a Latin abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman Des Grantz Geanz, a short narrative telling the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leaves may have been taken from a different manuscript. For the text see Carley and Crick 1995.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

1178. Harley MS 941, ff 4r-5v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 4r-5v
Title:
Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins.
Scope & Content:
Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins, incipit: 'Idolatria, sortilegia, incantaciones'; see Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices 1100-1500, ed. by M. W. Bloomfield et al. The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 88 (Cambridge MA, 1979), n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

1179. Harley MS 941, ff 6r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 6r-21r
Title:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi
Scope & Content:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
16 folios.

1180. Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v
Title:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

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