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1. Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 11–175

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 11–175
Title:
Heliand
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a copy of the Heliand, an Old Saxon Biblical epic copied perhaps in England in the middle or 2nd half of the 10th century (ff. 11r–175v). It is the longest Old Saxon text that survives. Apart from fragments, only one other substantial medieval copy of the Heliand survives (M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII

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