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2391. Harley MS 2413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2413
Title:
Heraldic manual
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts concerning the rights and duties of royal heralds, how to hold events like tournaments and aristocratic funerals, and the precedence of nobles at state occasions. It was probably created for the use of a royal herald. Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Rules of precedence for dukes, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2392. Harley MS 2414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2414
Title:
Pedigrees of Welsh families; Chronicle of England
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part (ff. 1r-68v) mainly contains Welsh pedigrees, written in Welsh, largely copied by Llewelyn Sion in the 2nd half of the 16th century. The second part (ff. 70r-102v) contains a Chronicle of England, w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2393. Harley MS 2415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2415
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2394. Harley MS 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2417
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2395. Harley MS 2418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2418
Title:
Sermons
Scope & Content:
A volume of 100 anonymous sermons, beginning and ending imperfectly. Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Sermons 4-7, beginning imperfectly. ff. 14r-132v: Sermons 8-103, in a different hand, ending imperfectly. 1 parchment stub between ff. 60 and 61 and 1 between ff. 130 and 131. Decoration: Initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Mid 13th century

2396. Harley MS 2419

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2419
Title:
Johan Baptista Houwaert, Den wel ghecomen van den [...] Prince van Parma
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Johan Baptista Houwaert (b. 1533, d. 1599), Den wel ghecomen van den [...] Prince van Parma. Poems dedicated to Alexander Farnese (b. 1545, d. 1592), Duke of Parma, beginning ‘Den Hoogh-gheboren, Doorluchtigen Ende victorieusen Alexander Prince van Parma etc. Ridder vander...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2397. Harley MS 2420

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2420
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2398. Harley MS 2421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2421
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2399. Harley MS 2422

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2422
Title:
Nigel Wireker, Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror of Fools)
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-6v: Nigel Wireker, prose prologue. ff. 6v-8v: Nigel Wireker, verse prologue. ff. 8v-81v: Nigel Wireker, Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror of Fools). Decoration: Numerous marginal sketches in red of faces in profile. 1 large initial in red (f. 2r). Smaller initials in brown and/or red...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2400. Harley MS 2423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2423
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici, ad Ludovicum Regum Francorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: Vincent of Beauvais, Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici, ad Ludovicum Regum Francorum. Decoration: 1 large initial in red with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with reserve designs. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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