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2291. 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

2292. 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

2293. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2294. Harley MS 2338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume

2295. 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

2296. 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

2297. 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

2298. Harley MS 2342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2342
Title:
Prayer book ('Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book')
Scope & Content:
Prayer book, known as 'Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book'. The manuscript contains prayers extracted from Richard Taverner's translation from the Latin of Wolfgang Capito's Precationes Christianae ad imitationem psalmorum compositae, printed as An epitome of the Psalmes, or briefe meditacons upon th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1539-1554
Extent:

1 volume

2299. 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

2300. Harley MS 2344

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2344
Title:
A theological tract
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: a list of important feast days between 1493 and 1505. ff. 2r-143v: A theological tract in 67 chapters, imperfect at the beginning; several leaves have been torn (stubs remaining); followed by a list of chapters (ff. 144r-157v). Decoration: Underlining and paragraph marks in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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