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2251. Harley MS 2248

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2248
Title:
The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-17r: A table of contents for the Prose Brut. ff. 19r-290v: The Prose Brut; the Common Version to 1419. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 18v: A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus'; added in a 15th-century hand. Decoration: Guide letters in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2252. Harley MS 2249

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2249
Title:
Wycliffite Old Testament, Later Version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Later Version of Wycliffite Old Testament; imperfect, Joshua 19-Psalm 144. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'In Add MS 11.888 containing the New Testame...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2253. Harley MS 2250

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2250
Title:
Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2254. Harley MS 2251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2251
Title:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460-1483
Extent:
1 volume

2255. Harley MS 2252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2252
Title:
The Commonplace Book of John Colyns, including Ipomydon, B version, and the stanzaic Morte Arthur
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript comprises two booklets of Middle English poetry and prose (ff. 54-85, 86-133) that were compiled into one volume in the early 16th century by John Colyns (d. c. 1542), mercer, of the parish of St Mary Woolchurch Haw, London. The manuscript contains the unique copies o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2256. Harley MS 2253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253
Title:
Henri d'Acre, Miscellany of secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics'), including King Horn and the Follies of Fashion, and Psalms listed for recitation at certain times (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript divides in two parts. Part I (ff. 1r-48v) includes a collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French. Part II (ff. 49r-140v and 142r-142v, except for folio 52v) was written in c. 1330-1340 by the so-called 'Harley scribe' and contains a miscellany of texts including secu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2257. Harley MS 2253, ff 1r-48v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253, ff 1r-48v
Title:
Collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
Collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French including: 1. 'Vitas patrum' (formerly attributed to Henry d'Arci), incipit: 'En lonur de damne de le omnipotent' (ff. 1r-22v); 2. 'La passioun nostre seignour' (an extract from the versified biblical history of Hermann of Valenciennes)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
48 folios.

2258. Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v
Title:
Miscellany of (the 'Harley Lyrics')
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of texts including secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics') in English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. This part of the manuscript (except for folio 52v) was written by the so-called 'Harley scribe', active in or near Ludlow (Southern Shropshire) from 1314 to c. 1349...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:
95 folios.

2259. Harley MS 2254

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2254
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2260. Harley MS 2255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2255
Title:
A collection of poems by John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetry by or attributed to John Lydgate (c. 1370-1449/50?), containing 45 Middle English poems, mostly religious. McCracken considered as Lydgate's all but two of the poems (Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas and A Satirical Description of his Lady), whose aut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1470
Extent:

1 volume

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