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2371. Harley MS 2365

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2365
Title:
Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-123v: Honorius of Autun [Honorius Augustodunensis], Elucidarium. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 74r, 97r, 114v, 125v: Added annotations. ff. 124v-125r: A text providing an introduction to the Elucidarium headed 'Lectori Philippus Prince S.', written in the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2372. Harley MS 2367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2367
Title:
A prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: A prayer book, including a calendar (ff. 1r-6v), a litany (ff. 31r-32v), lacking leaves at the beginning. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold, the initial removed (f. 36r). Initials in gold on coloured grounds with gold balls and green leaves (f. 7r). Small initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2373. Harley MS 2369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2369
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Astrological, Alchemical, and Medical texts; late 15th cent. Latin. Copies. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. All the medical texts are itemised in the description, but the non-medical texts are described only summarily. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2374. Harley MS 2370

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2370
Title:
Ars moriendi; Chronicle of England from the Creation to the year 1427
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Ars moriendi, beginning: ‘Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus’; an added title inscription on f. 1r, written in a 16th-century hand, spuriously attributes the work to ‘Albertus Castellanus’. This may refer to Albertus de Castello, a Dominican friar, who edite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2375. Harley MS 2371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2371
Title:
John Mirk, Festial
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-141v: John Mirk, Festial (Group B version); beginning imperfectly towards the end of Advent and ending imperfectly with the opening of the Dedication of the Church; the sermon for the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been largely cut out (see ff. 73*-[73c]), and the remaini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2376. Harley MS 2372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2372
Title:
A Mirror for Recluses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of A Mirror for Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum inclusorum, an early 15th-century rule or guide for male anchorites. A complete copy of the text (the only other in existence) survives in a manuscript sold at Christie's, London, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2377. Harley MS 2373

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2373
Title:
The Cloud of Unknowing, The Book of Privy Counselling, and other works by the same author
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of seventeen extant medieval copies of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guide on contemplative prayer and meditation from the second half of the 14th century. It contains five other works by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing: The Epistle of Discretion of Stirrings, Treat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2378. Harley MS 2374

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2374
Title:
A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2379. Harley MS 2375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2375
Title:
Scope & Content:
Compilation of Medical and Astrological Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The MS. is a compilation of medical and astrological texts and recipes; its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Owned by John Batteley (1647-1708), clergyman and antiquary. Boug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2380. Harley MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2376
Title:
William Langland, Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-124r: William Langland, Piers Plowman (the 'C' (N) text). Decoration: Numerous large initials in red ink with purple penwork decoration, with oak leaves in red ink decorating the rubric (f. 1r). Rubric on a scroll drawn in red ink (f. 51r). Parts of the text framed in red in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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