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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 265
Title:: Cartulary of the Berkeley family
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*v–2*r: Note on the relationship of Thomas, Lord Berkeley, to the Earl of Winchester. ff. 1r–145v: Cartulary, arranged topographically, from the time of Edward I to Henry VI, relating to Wymondham, Edingthorpe and other places in Leicestershire and Norfolk. Fragmentary towards the end due ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1458-c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 274
Title:: Formulary for charters and testaments
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13r: 'Tractatus de propretatibus et circumstancijs cartarum et scriptorum per Richardum de Ertham editus'. ff. 13r-14r: 'Statutum de emptoribus terrarum'. ff. 14r-29r: Collection of formula for charters, beginning with 'Carta simplex'. ff. 29r-49r: Methods for calculating...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 275
Title:: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae, Incendium amoris, Commentarius in Iob seu Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes Piissimae; Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Jerome's translation of Origen’s Homilies on the Song of Songs; Speculum humanae salvationis; A Christmas Carol; A Latin treatise against divination and superstition; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological treatises in Latin and Middle English that was probably produced in a monastic environment. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae. ff. 12v-46r:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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