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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6563
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum(?)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: the Hours of the Virgin, probably Use of Sarum (imperfect); ff. 5r-9v: the Office of the Dead (imperfect); ff. 10r-25v: the Hours of the Virgin, probably Use of Sarum (imperfect), followed by the hymn Salve Regina (continued on f. 32r); ff. 27r-31v, 33r-35r: the Hours...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1320-c. 1330
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6571
Title:: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman, beginning: ‘Seynt Johon þe evangelist in his boke of pryvytes telleþ þat he saw a wondirful and a degysed beste come out of þe see þat haddde a body like to a libarde . ffeet as hit were of a bere prote as hit were of alyon and he hadde ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6572
Title:: Collection of Protestant sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-288v: A collection of French Protestant sermons. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [289]recto: A list of books ('Virgill - Tulijs - Horace - Virgill - Testamenta - Grammar') and payments, added in pencil.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1550-1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6573
Title:: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2). Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6576
Title:: Collection of theological texts, including Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis; Latin translation by Thomas Fishlake (fl. 1377). ff. 128r-136r: Liber Vitae, beginning: 'De hiis que primo consideranda sunt tendenti ad perfeccionem contemplationis et ad vitam religiosam'. ff. 136v-138v: John Chrysostom, De eo quod...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6577
Title:: Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi; Pseudo-Augustine, De visitatione infirmorum; Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam; Epistola beate marie ad sancti ignatium; Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastoralis; Bona Expositio Orationis Dominicae; Divisio Symboli Apostoli; Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Gregory the Great, Homilies
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), De visitatione infirmorum [here entitled: ‘de consolatione infirmorum’] (On the Visitation of the Sick). f. 46r: A letter of St Ignatius to the Virgin Mary and her reply (‘Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam’; ‘Epistola beat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1454
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6578
Title:: Petrus Riga, Aurora
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-147r: Petrus Riga, Aurora. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 1*recto-2*verso: The Gospel of Nicodemus, fragment; written in the late 12th or early 13th century. ff. 3*recto-3*verso: An unidentified theological text about sins; added in the 13th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6579
Title:: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-140r: Walter Hilton (d. 1396), an Austin monk at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, The Scale of Perfection.Beginning: 'Ghostly sister in ihesu crist I preie þe þat in þe calling whilke oure lord hath callid þe to his servise: þou halde þe paied and stond stedfastly þerinne'; opening...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6580
Title:: Speculum Christiani and Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-62r: Speculum Christiani. At the end the scribe writes 'Amen quod Rogerus' and directly after this in red, a rubricator writes 'Explicit liber de speculo christiani quod byrde' (f. 62r). ff. 62v-64v: Oraciones de Saluatore Nostro. Late 14th century Latin text on original flyl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6581
Title:: Index scriptorum ecclesiasticorum; Index Haeresiarcharum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Index scriptorum ecclesiasticorum ab anno Nativitatis 63 usque ad annum 1440. ff. 30r-31v: Index of authors. ff. 32r-123r: Index Haeresiarcharum. ff. 124r-125r: Index of authors.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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