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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1725
Title:: Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1727
Title:: Papers on the Court of Wards
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-104: Decrees of the Court of Wards in Law French, 1553-1581. One of several copies of a selection of decrees 1553-1581 compiled by John Hare, one of the common attorneys of the court. Title: ‘Un breife Collection de touts tiels Decrees fait in Court de Gards, queux decidont ascun doubt in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1728
Title:: Polychronicon with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 1
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first of two related volumes, Harley MS 1729 being the second. The text is primarily a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. An apparatus of slightly later date has been added to the beginning, in a different hand (items 1-3). Contents: 1. (f. 1v): List of the kings fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1729
Title:: Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398), vol. 2
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second of two related volumes, Harley MS 1728 being the first. The text is a copy of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, with a continuation to the reign of Richard II (c. 1398). Incipit (f. 1r): 'lunares qui gravidatis feminis deputantur . ita quod . quilibet mensis sit 30 dier...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1730
Title:: Wycliffite sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The manuscript contains a few additions: Margi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1731
Title:: Prick of Conscience; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-132v: Prick of Conscience. ff. 134r-148v: Speculum Gy de Warewyke (also entitled Speculum Mundi and Speculum utile istius mundi). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: two inscriptions on pieces of parchment: ‘Ryght honorable and most worthy’, added in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1732
Title:: A collection of various theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: A collection of various theological and polemical texts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1733
Title:: Miscellaneous tracts
Scope & Content:: Various tracts formerly belonging to Henry Worsley, bound together. Bound in a different order from that described in the printed catalogue of 1808, and re-foliated. ff. 1-10*: Some law cases, with notes. In law French. Folios 1 and 10* are parchment wrappers (formed of manuscript waste, namel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1734
Title:: Medicine book of John Forbes of Echt, written by Patrick Scot
Scope & Content:: Scottish medical recipe book, with marginal additions in other hands. Title page (f. 2): ‘Ane medicyne buik perteininge to ane Richt Honorabill man Johnne Forbes of Echt, writtin be me Patrik Scot his Servant quha wissis to him & his Lady Beatrix Gordoun Continewall Grace, Mercie, & peac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Scots
Date Range:: 1605
Extent:: 1 volume

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