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251. Harley MS 3432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3432
Title:
The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

252. Harley MS 3661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3661
Title:
The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 volume

253. Harley MS 3828

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3828
Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite prayer-book with Middle Dutch and Latin texts consists of four distinct parts: two parts (ff. 1r-12v, and ff. 17r-75v) were made in Flanders (probably Bruges) in the 1440s; and two others (ff. 13r-16v, and ff. 76r-208r) in the Netherlands (probably North Brabant) in the 2nd half o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

254. Harley MS 4012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4012
Title:
Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460s-1470s
Extent:
1 volume

255. Harley MS 4605

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4605
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: Table of contents to Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie, with a rubric beginning, 'Cy commence la table des rubriches du livre des fais darmes & de chevalerie le quel dit livre est parti en quatre parties' (f. 2r); the main text beginning, 'La premiere partie de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

256. Harley MS 4800

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4800
Title:
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, Books 4-5
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations, a Middle English translation of the Liber Celestis, incomplete, containing Book 4 (lacking chapters 41-66, the beginnings of chapters 7 and 67, the endings of chapters 6 and 40, and a folio with the middle of chapter 89) and Book 5, Chapte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

257. Harley MS 5036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5036
Title:
Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

258. Harley MS 6670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6670
Title:
Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

259. Harley Roll Y 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Roll Y 21
Title:
Lincolnshire jointure of Queen Jane Seymour
Scope & Content:
Roll listing part of the jointure of Queen Jane Seymour (b. 1509, d. 1537), being the money and lands given to support her financially during her marriage to Henry VIII, who had granted her more than 100 manors. The roll begins with lands formerly belonging to King John, listing the extent and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 roll

260. Lansdowne MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 441
Title:
Indenture between Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an original indenture between Margaret Beaufort (b. 1443, d. 1509), Countess of Richmond and mother of King Henry VII (r. 1485-1509), and John Islip (b. 1464, d. 1532), Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry, made on 2 March 150...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2 Mar 1506
Extent:

1 volume

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