Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978
Title:: Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:: A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, f 38r
Title:: Two letters
Scope & Content:: Two letters: 1. Incipit: 'Abbas Westmonasteriensis salutem', explicit: 'tempora longiora'; 2. Incipit: 'Viro venerabili et discreto R.', explicit: 'vobis duxerit intimandum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:: Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:: 1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 15v-21v
Title:: Calendar with prognostications
Scope & Content:: Calendar with prognostications. Only the entries for January and February (ff. 15v-16r) are complete with prognostications and references to the deaths of abbots of Reading, while prognostications for May-August were supplied by a 15th-century hand. References to the abbots' deaths on ff. 15v-16...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:: Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 38r-39v
Title:: Short texts in prose and verse
Scope & Content:: Short texts in prose and verse by various hands. Rubric (f. 38v): 'Dicta cuidam Goliardi anglici', incipit: 'Omnibus in Gallia anglus Goliardus': see H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1969), no. 13306; incipit: 'Quatuor e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v
Title:: Marie de France, Fables
Scope & Content:: Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 68v-74v
Title:: Walter Map, Poems
Scope & Content:: Walter Map, Poems (added); Incipit: 'Noctis sub silencio tempore brumali', explicit: 'Explicit conflictus (?) inter corpus et animam'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 7 folios + 1 (ff. 174*r-174*v: blank).

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 75r-117v
Title:: Literary miscellany
Scope & Content:: Literary miscellany in verse and prose including: Goliardic verses including poems by Walter Map (ff. 75r-107r); Rubric (f. 75r): 'Apocalipsis Golye episcopi', incipit: 'A tauro torrida lampada cynthis?', explicit: 'Tu autem domine miserere crawe. Amen'. The verses include H. Walther, Initia carm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 43 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r
Title:: Marie de France, Lais
Scope & Content:: Marie de France, Lais; incipit: 'Ki deus ad dune en science?', explicit: 'Chahum nel deust oblier'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 43 folios.

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