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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v
Title:: Prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: Collection of prayers and devotional texts, beginning with the Lord's prayer, incipit: 'Fadir ours þat ast in hevenes.' Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 12r-35v
Title:: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis etc hec oratio privilegiata'. ff. 31v-33v: Added rubric: 'Glosa Richardi de hampris heremite in oracione domenice..', incipit: 'Sequitur quedam brevis exposicio oracionis dominice.' ff. 33v-34v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:: Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:: ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2407
Title:: Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2408
Title:: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland; John Bale, The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome; epitome of James VI and I, Basilikon Doron
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Latin chronicle from the Passion of Christ to the year 1559 [the reign of Queen Mary I]. f. 8r: A recipe in English, entitled: 'A medecyne for the knitting of a bone, strenghtning of a strayne, or stopping of a vayne within one'. ff. 8v-32r: John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563),...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2409
Title:: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2411
Title:: George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2412
Title:: Thomas Legge, Richard Tertius
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the eleven extant copies of Richardus Tertius, a play about King Richard III by the Cambridge playwright Thomas Legge (b. c. 1535, d. 1607). Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Thomas Legge, Richardus Tertius, here entitled: ‘Richardus Tertius – Tragedia in tres actiones div...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2413
Title:: Heraldic manual
Scope & Content:: A collection of texts concerning the rights and duties of royal heralds, how to hold events like tournaments and aristocratic funerals, and the precedence of nobles at state occasions. It was probably created for the use of a royal herald. Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Rules of precedence for dukes, ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2414
Title:: Pedigrees of Welsh families; Chronicle of England
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part (ff. 1r-68v) mainly contains Welsh pedigrees, written in Welsh, largely copied by Llewelyn Sion in the 2nd half of the 16th century. The second part (ff. 70r-102v) contains a Chronicle of England, w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Welsh
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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