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2371. Harley MS 2392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2392
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2372. Harley MS 2394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2394
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-129r: Prick of Conscience; imperfect at the beginning: loss of text on ff. 1-7 due to damage to folios; ff. 128r-129r have been substituted for lost leaves in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 77r: A Middle English verse, ‘After my warkes deme no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2373. Harley MS 2395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2395
Title:
Parish register of Steventon, 1559-1599
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A parish register of Steventon, recording baptisms, marriages and burials between 1559 and 1599. ff. 57r-58r: An account of ministers who preached in the church of Steventon from 1573 to 1578.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1559-1599
Extent:
1 volume

2374. Harley MS 2396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2396
Title:
Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78v: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels, beginning incompletely in the epistle sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, and ending with the Friday gospel sermon for the 5th week after the Octave of Epiphany. For a detailed list of sermo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2375. Harley MS 2397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2397
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, The Mixed Life, and Bonum Est
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (Book II). ff. 73r-85r: Walter Hilton, The Mixed Life. ff. 85v-94r: Walter Hilton, Bonum Est (a commentary on Psalm 91). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-4*v, 95-98v: Fragments of a 14th-century liturgical manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2376. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2377. Harley MS 2399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2399
Title:
Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:
The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1625
Extent:
1 item

2378. Harley MS 2400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2400
Title:
Psalms in English; The prayers of the Bible; A treatyse of confyrmacyon comenly called bysshoppynge of chyldren made by the godlye learned man John Calvyne now fyrste translated out of Laten in to englysh by Wyllyam Boys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: A selection of the psalms in English, imperfect at the beginning; ending: ‘The ende of the Psalter’. ff. 30r-35v: ‘The prayers of the Bible’, beginning: ‘Heare folowe certayne prayers of holy men and women taken out of the byble and fyrste for the synnes of the churche o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

2379. Harley MS 2402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2402
Title:
A grammatical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174v: an anonymous grammatical treatise in Latin and Middle English. Decoration: Rubrics and underlining in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2380. Harley MS 2403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2403
Title:
John Mirk, Festial; The Apostles’ Creed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191r: John Mirk, Festial; including verses on f. 151r (Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin); and f. 13r (Seven lines, ‘Wherfor pray we to hym to make us studfast yn our fay’); ending with the verses ‘Mentem sanctam [habuit], spontaneam [mortem sustinuit], honorem deo [dedit] et pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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