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2461. Harley MS 2439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2439
Title:
Richard Rolle, Libellus de emendacione, and other religious treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Richard Rolle, Libellus de emendacione. ff. 31r-v: Richard Rolle, Melum contemplativorum. f. 32v: Richard Rolle, a prayer (beginning 'Si tuam animam vis salvare'). f. 32r: verses (beginning 'In cruce sum pro te qui peccas desine pro me'). ff. 33r-43v: Liber de gra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2462. Harley MS 2440

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2440
Title:
John Pecham, Ignorantia Sacerdotum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-154r: John Pecham (b. 1240, d. 1292), Ignorantia Sacerdotum (chapter 9 of Constitutiones), beginning: 'Ne quis per ignorantiam se excuset'. ff. 154v-156r: a tabula listing the chapters of the Ignorantia Sacerdotum. Decoration: Several small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2463. Harley MS 2441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2441
Title:
A Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book was copied by a single scribe for a general audience. It contains prayers for one’s partner (husband or wife) and children, but also prayers to be recited by those unable to have children, young (unmarried) persons, widows and clerics. ff. 1r-6v: A treatise on pray...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1575-1596
Extent:

1 volume

2464. Harley MS 2442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2442
Title:
A Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-432v: A Bible, without the Psalms, imperfect. Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue or purple and red at the beginning of each book. Smaller initials in red with purple or blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2465. Harley MS 2443

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2443
Title:
Book of Hours, fragmentary
Scope & Content:
A fragmentary Book of Hours, now lacking folios at the beginning, at the end, as well as within the manuscript, and consisting mainly of the Office of the Dead. Contents: f. 1r-v: The end of a litany, beginning ‘peccata mundi misere[re] nobis’. ff. 2r-70v: The Office of the Dead, now imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2466. Harley MS 2444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2444
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-18r: A treatise on the meaning of Mass in Low German, with the introductory rubric: 'Dit is dat beduytnisse van der heylger missen. As der priester anden elter kumpt ee he die miss an heefft so nyget he sich tzo der eerden'; beginning: 'Dat beduyt dat nygen dat sich der hemelsc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Low and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2467. Harley MS 2445

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2445
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2468. Harley MS 2446

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2446
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80v: Breviary. Decoration: Miniature in colours and gold of the Crucifixion (f. 28v). The miniature was painted on a separate leaf (blank on the recto). 1 roundel with a cross, in colours (f. 37v). Large initial in colours with acanthus leaves (f. 29r). Initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2469. Harley MS 2447

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2447
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar; including English saints Wulstan and Edward (x3, once in red), Cuthbert, Dunstan, Edmund (x3, once in red), Æthelthryth [Etheldreda] (x2, once in red), Swithun, Kenelm, and Winifred. ff. 7r-78v: The Hours of the Virgin; lacking the beginning of Matins (after f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

2470. Harley MS 2448

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2448
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 14r-93r: Hours of the Virgin Mary ('Officium sancta marie virginis secundum consuetudinem romane curie'). ff. 94r-153v: Office of the Dead ('Officium in agenda mortuorum'). ff. 154r-189v: Hours of the Passion ('Officium sacratissimae passonis domini nos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1480
Extent:

1 volume

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