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821. Harley MS 2327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2327
Title:
Manual of religious instruction for an English Catholic family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: 'The maner how to make our Confession which is accustomed to bee don everie eight daye'; with detailed instructions on how to examine one’s conscience according to deadly and capital sins. ff. 25v-36r: 'Of the manner of the preparing of anyone unto the receving the most h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1576
Extent:
1 volume

822. Harley MS 2333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2333
Title:
Middle English and Latin devotional texts for spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37r: A Middle English guide for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem known as The Ynformacion, which provides a terminus post quem of 1480 by referring to the destruction of the port town of Otranto in that year (ff. 33v-34v); edited from the only other known copy in Oxford, Queen’s Colle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

823. Harley MS 2335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2335
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

824. Harley MS 2339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2339
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Rule of the Life of the Virgin Mary; Myrrour of Synners; The Three Arrows of Doomsday; treatise on the Three Estates; Song of Love of Jesus; William Lychefelde, Complaint of God
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prayer to Christ, beginning imperfectly due to the loss of a preceding folio: 'þere þi modir make þou þat þi love and þi charite; felowshippe me to þi modir'. ff. 2r-3r: A prayer to Christ, entitled: 'þis orisoun þat folowiþ is in mynde of ihesu cristis passioun'; beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

825. Harley MS 2340

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

826. Harley MS 2341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2341
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-13r: Calendar featuring English saints; and with Thomas Becket's name inked out; featuring a rhyme in English on the number of days in twelve months (f. 3r), written in the same hand as the rest of the calendar: 'Thirti dayes hath November / April, June, and September / Of xxvi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

827. Harley MS 2343

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2343
Title:
Collection of Middle English tracts of religious instruction, including the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria, the Apostle's Creed, and the Ten Commandments
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The Lords Prayer, beginning: 'In þe name of þe fadir and of þe sone and of þe holi goost amen'. ff. 1r-1v: The Ave Maria, beginning: 'Heil marie ful of grace'. ff. 1v-2r: The Apostles Creed, beginning: 'I bileve into god fadir almy[g]ti make of hevene and of erþe'. ff. 2r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

828. Harley MS 2346

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2346
Title:
Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae; collection of Latin sermons; treatise on the Ten Commandments; treatise on the division of the Ten Commandments; De decem Plagis et decem Praeceptis; The Long Charter of Christ; Bernart Amoros, Speculum Sacerdotum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany of three parts (ff. 1r-11v; ff, 12r-33v; ff, 34r-72v) that have been written at the end of the 14th century and in the 15th century. Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae (here with the added title De gradus contemplationis), b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1375-1500
Extent:
1 volume

829. Harley MS 2348

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2348
Title:
A collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2*r-195v: A collection of 69 sermons in Latin, from the first Sunday of Advent to Pentecost. ff. 196r-196v: A table of contents in a 14th-century hand, listing the sermons contained in the manuscript with detail added in a later hand and the folio reference in yet another hand. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

830. Harley MS 2351

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2351
Title:
Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-354v: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; Psalms incomplete (only Psalm 1 to the middle of Psalm 5 on f. 127v). Includes the Interpretation of Hebrew Names at the end (ff. 325r-350v). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 321v-324r: Text wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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