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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 191v-198v
Title:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: Purgatoire de S. Patrice; incipit: 'Ici comence purgatorie seint patric / [P]ur la bone gent conforter'. Written by the Ludlow scribe in collaboration with another scribe who copied lines 373-550: see C. Revard 1970. For the text and the manuscript see Vising 1916.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1314-1329
Extent:: 8 folios followed by 1 blank folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 199r-203r
Title:: Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour
Scope & Content:: The fifth unit of the manuscript includes Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour; Rubric 'Ici comence la pleynte de / amour', incipit: 'Amur Amur ou estes veus'. For the text see M. Vising, La Plainte d'Amour, poèm anglo-normand (Göteborg, 1905, 1907). Decoration: 1 initial (f. 199r; 2 lines) in b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
Title:: Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
Scope & Content:: Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 276
Title:: Gospel of John, with gloss
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–68v: Gospel of John, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Decoration: Large and smaller initials in red (ff. 1r–2v), two with penwork decoration in brown ink (ff. 1v, 2v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 278
Title:: Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:: The Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter, revised under Henry VIII in 1522; for the printed edition see Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London 1672). Incipit: 'The statutis and ordynancys of the meoste noble ordre of say...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1522-c 1530
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 279
Title:: Culinary treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Tables of contents for the manuscript’s culinary treatises. ff. 6r-26r: Potage Dyvers. ff. 27v-36r: Vyaunde Leche. ff. 37v-43v: Vyaunde Furnez. ff. 45r-49r: Menus for various feasts. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 44r: A table of contents for menus at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 280
Title:: A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 281
Title:: Miscellany of musical treatises compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–2v: Added notes on the tones (16th-century). ff. 3r: Added diagram of Guidonian hand. f. 4r–v: Added table of contents. ff. 5r–16v: Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus. ff. 16v–24v: Guido of Arezzo, Trocaicus. ff. 25r–34r: Pseudo-Odo (here attributed to Guido of Arezzo), Dialogus de musica. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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