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2. Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178
- Title:
- Æcerbot charm
- Scope & Content:
- These folios include a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land (Æcerbot), added in the 1st half of the 11th century. It is primarily in Old English, with some Latin phrases. Contents: ff. 176r-178r: a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land known as Æcerbot. [f. 178v is blank].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Extent:
- Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII
3. Harley MS 630
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 630
- Title:
- Gilte Legend
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-365r: Gilte Legend; according to the medieval foliation and content list, the manuscript lacks the first 5 folios, which include the life of St Andrew and part of the life of St Nicholas; ending with the explicit: 'Here endeth the Boke of the life of Seintes called in latyn leg...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Harley MS 2254
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2254
- Title:
- Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love and Of Mixed Life
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Harley MS 2861
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2861
- Title:
- Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-72r: Hours of the Virgin with suffrages following Lauds (incomplete; lacking beginning of Lauds and Compline). ff. 72v-73v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘Te deprecor sanctissima maria’. ff. 73v-77v: Short prayers to the Image of Christ on th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Harley MS 3634
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3634
- Title:
- Thomas Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae,Chronica Majora and Chronicon Angliæ
- Scope & Content:
- A composite manuscript of 2 parts. Part 1 (ff. 2v-125r, 195r-205r) contains Thomas Walsingham's Ypodigma Neustriae, Chronica Majora, and a continuation to Thomas Walsingham's Chronicon Angliæ, and was written in southern England in the first half of the 16th century. Part 2 (ff. 125r-195r) is...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1387-c 1550
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Harley MS 3652
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3652
- Title:
- English statutes; Registrum Cancellarie; Registrum brevium
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains collections of English statutes and laws until the reign of Richard II, written in Latin and French, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1r-29r), and a chancery register (ff. 30r-54r). Contents: ff. 1r-12v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 4775
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4775
- Title:
- Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 7626
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7626
- Title:
- The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-12v: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London; the chantry of Walter Sherington (b. 1431, d. 1442), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, was founded by his executors for two chaplains to pray for his soul and for the good es...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1457-c 1500
- Extent:
- 1 volume