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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 612
Title:: Birgitta of Sweden, Liber Celestis Revelacionum, with tracts and documents relating to her canonisation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts from and about St Birgitta of Sweden, divided into 14 books, and copied by Thomas Colyngbourn for the Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin and St Bridget of Syon [Syon Abbey], Isleworth, Middlesex. It is one of three surviving Latin m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1435 and 1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1251
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1725
Title:: Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1764
Title:: The Knight of the Tower, an anonymous Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de La Tour Landry, by Geoffroy IV de la Tour-Landry
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only known surviving copy of the earlier Middle English translation of Le Chevalier de la Tour Landry by Geoffroy de la Tour Landry (b. before 1330, d. between 1402 and 1406), known as The Knight of the Tower. This copy of the text is imperfect, with a catchword on f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2340
Title:: Collection of treatises on hawking, including the 'J. B. Treatise'
Scope & Content:: This pocket-sized manuscript contains a collection of three Middle English treatises on the subject of hawking, including a version of the so-called 'J. B. Treatise'. The text contains a hierarchy of hawks and owners (including the line, 'A kesterell for a knafe', f. 50r) as well as a final sect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2388
Title:: Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:: This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2430
Title:: German prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2920
Title:: Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:: A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2939
Title:: Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
Scope & Content:: This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2975
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar in Latin. f. 2r: A circular diagram with instruction for finding Sunday Letters and Golden Numbers, starting in the year 1500. f. 2v: 'Tabula duodecum signorum zodyaci'. ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including feasts for St Ludger, Bishop of Münster in Westph...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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