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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2404
Title:: A miscellany of geomantic and astrological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: pp. 1-32: A treatise on geomancy with the title Geomancia Judeana (pp. 18 and 32), beginning: ‘Hec est geomancia Indenea que vocatur filia astronomie quam fecit unus sapientum Indie et est facta per 7 planetas’. pp. 33-59: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Archanum magni Dei de reductione geomancie; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406
Title:: Miscellany of prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite codex formed of three separate parts (ff. 1-11; 12-35, and 36-85). ff. 1r-11v: Prayer and devotional texts. ff. 12r-35v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis.' ff. 36r-86r: Devotional texts including Richard Roll...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v
Title:: Prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: Collection of prayers and devotional texts, beginning with the Lord's prayer, incipit: 'Fadir ours þat ast in hevenes.' Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 12r-35v
Title:: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis etc hec oratio privilegiata'. ff. 31v-33v: Added rubric: 'Glosa Richardi de hampris heremite in oracione domenice..', incipit: 'Sequitur quedam brevis exposicio oracionis dominice.' ff. 33v-34v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:: Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:: ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2407
Title:: Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2408
Title:: Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland; John Bale, The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome; epitome of James VI and I, Basilikon Doron
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Latin chronicle from the Passion of Christ to the year 1559 [the reign of Queen Mary I]. f. 8r: A recipe in English, entitled: 'A medecyne for the knitting of a bone, strenghtning of a strayne, or stopping of a vayne within one'. ff. 8v-32r: John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563),...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2409
Title:: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God; Middle English translation of William Flete’s De remediis contra temptaciones; Cleannesse of Sowle; Verses on the Nine Points of Virtue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God. ff. 52r-69v: William Flete [but here attributed to Walter Hilton], De remediis contra temptaciones (Remedies against Temptations); Middle English translation. ff. 70r-75r: Cleannesse of Sowle, most complete extant Middle En...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2411
Title:: George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1610
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2412
Title:: Thomas Legge, Richard Tertius
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the eleven extant copies of Richardus Tertius, a play about King Richard III by the Cambridge playwright Thomas Legge (b. c. 1535, d. 1607). Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Thomas Legge, Richardus Tertius, here entitled: ‘Richardus Tertius – Tragedia in tres actiones div...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1588
Extent:: 1 volume

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