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351. Harley MS 217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 217
Title:
Meditationes uitae Christi; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–156r: Meditationes uitae Christi. ff. 156v–160v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis. Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue. Text initials with some penwork decoration (ff. 2-109). Descenders and ascenders of letters alongside the writing frame often with penwork ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

352. Harley MS 217/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 217/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 217
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, blind-tooled. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 217 (Meditationes uitae Christi; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 217

353. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

354. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

355. Harley MS 220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 220
Title:
Miscellany of canon law, historical and pastoral works
Scope & Content:
f. 1r–v: ‘De materia oblationum’. f. 2r: Verses on the monarchs of England. ff. 2v–3r: Added table of contents and incipit to the constitutions of the Exeter synod. ff. 4r–48v: Constitutiones of bishop Peter Quivil at the 1287 Exeter synod. ff. 49r–58v: ‘Summula Sinodi Exoniensis diocesis.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

356. Harley MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 221
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a 15th-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 321....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

357. Harley MS 222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 222
Title:
Herman de Valenciennes, Bible historiale
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r, 128v: Fragments of a 14th-century charter issued in England, used as endleaves. Written in Anglicana; includes the names 'Alex', 'Wilhelm ?Gasy', 'Jacobo de Bermynghem', and mentions London. ff. 2r–227v: Herman de Valenciennes, Bible historiale. Decoration: Large initials in gold and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1280
Extent:

1 volume

358. Harley MS 223

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 223
Title:
Berengaudus, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–143r: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis (ff. 1–6, 75–76, 95* mutilated). Decoration: 6 large initials in red or green with penwork decoration in the other colour (ff. 24r, 32v, 59v, 121r, 128v). Smaller initials in red and green with penwork decoration in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

359. Harley MS 224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 224
Title:
William Lyndwood, Provinciale
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r*–4*r: Table of contents, keyed to folio. ff. 1r–62r: William Lyndwood, Provinciale (Constitutions of the province of Canterbury). ff. 62r–63r: ‘Ordinacio super approbacione testamentorum.’ ff. 63r–64r: ‘Statutum editum contra hereticos.’ ff. 64r–65r: ‘Constiutio contra excessiua stipe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

360. Harley MS 225

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 225
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille), with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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