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351. Harley MS 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 266
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-151v: The Brut Chronicle with a title in a 16th-century hand: 'A verie large Chronicle from the beginning of E.I perfect to anno quo H. 6'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: a title page written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), beginning: 'An Ancient a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

352. Harley MS 267

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 267
Title:
Miscellany of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
A composite scientific manuscript of at least six parts (ff. 1-2, 3-9, 10-15, 16-23, 24-174, 175-235) that were produced at different locations and periods of time between c. 1300 and c. 1400. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A computistical text. ff. 3r-9v: Gregory the Great, Gospel lections. ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

353. Harley MS 268

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 268
Title:
A collection of exempla; Etienne de Besançon, Alphabetum Narrationem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-44r: A collection of exempla, beginning ‘Hic incipiunt exempla bona et moralia de Johanne Patriarcha’. ff. 45r-201r: Etienne de Besançon, Alphabetum Narrationem. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1v-2r: A ‘heavenly letter’, beginning ‘This is þe copy of of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

354. Harley MS 270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 270
Title:
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans
Scope & Content:
The volume is made up of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1r-122v, 123r-149v), as follows: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket (ff. 1r-122v); Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans (ff. 123r-149v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1175-1249
Extent:

1 volume

355. Harley MS 270, ff 1r-122v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 270, ff 1r-122v
Title:
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket
Scope & Content:
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket. Guernes, also known as Garnier, completed the text in 1174. Decoration: 1 large gold initial with foliate infill in blue, green and pink set against a rectangular pink ground (f. 1r). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
122 folios.

356. Harley MS 270, ff 123r-149v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 270, ff 123r-149v
Title:
Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius
Scope & Content:
Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius. Title (f. 123r) 'Incipit liber platearij de simplici medicina', prologue incipit: 'Circa instans negotium in simplicibus medicinis / nostrum versatur propositum'; table of contents for letters A and B, text incipit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
26 folios.

357. Harley MS 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 271
Title:
The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

358. Harley MS 272

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 272
Title:
Wycliffite Bible, New Testament (Later Version)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–155v: New Testament, in the Wycliffite translation into Middle English (later version). Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 22r, 59r, 75r, 82v, 90r, 95r, etc.). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Paraphs ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

359. Harley MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273
Title:
Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1349
Extent:

1 volume

360. Harley MS 273, ff 1r-69v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 1r-69v
Title:
Psalter, Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Dead
Scope & Content:
The first unit of the manuscript includes: 1. Calendar, with a dedication (f. 1v) of the parish church of St. Laurence at Ludlow ('lodelowe') (ff. 1r-6v); 2. Indulgences by Popes Innocent Urbanus IV and John XXII, added to a blank page by the Ludlow scribe (f. 7r) 3. Psalter, incipit: 'Benoy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
69 folios.

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