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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1705
Title:: Plato's Republic, translated into Latin by Pier Candido Decembrio
Scope & Content:: The preliminary copy of the translation of the first five books of the Republic by Pier Candidio Decembrio (b. 1399, d. 1477), in his autograph. The manuscript also contains Decembrio’s correspondence with Humphrey (b. 1390, d. 1447), prince, soldier, and literary patron, duke of Gloucester from...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1441
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706
Title:: Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1474-1524
Extent:: 216 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1500
Extent:: 93 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1707
Title:: Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden (to 1340)
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-223v): Polychronicon (to 1340) by Ranulf Higden (d. 1364). Incipit (f. 1r): 'Post preclaros arcium sc[ri]ptores'. Explicit (f. 223v): 'Sed tandem ob defectum pecunie quam sui segnes procuratores ab Anglia non miserant contractis treugis & inducijs inter Reges vtriusque...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1708
Title:: Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Scope & Content:: Cartulary, arranged mainly topographically, by counties. Sections of the founder’s and other royal charters at the beginning; additions, mainly 13th–14th century, throughout. ff. 1, 247: Fragments of an identified 14th-century theological commentary, used as flyleaves. f. 2r–v: Additions from ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Oct 1257-May 1258
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1709
Title:: Motets by English composers of the beginning of the 16th century. Medius part.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-57 passim. Medius part of some ‘antemns‘ (i.e. Motets) by English composers of the beginning of the 16th century. More than half of them are anonymous. 1. ‘Gaude plurimum.’ By J. Taverner. f. 1. 2. ‘Aue, dei patris filia.’ f. 3b. 3. ‘Adoro te, domine.’ f. 5. 4. ‘Salue, regina, pudi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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