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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 70r-81r
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour
Scope & Content:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love), incipit: 'Tote gent desirent par nature a saver'. Decoration: The text is illustrated with ink drawings: Author talking to a woman; Author teaching; Author at work; Author presenting his book to a woman (f. 70r); Knights on horseback...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 81r-85r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Rules
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Rules (Les Reules Seynt Roberd), incipit: 'Ici cumencent les reules qui Ro/bert Grosteste'. Originally written for Alice de Lacy, countess of Lincoln, widow of Thomas of Lancaster. For the text see S. H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 85-85v
Title:: Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs)
Scope & Content:: Rules of Friendship (La Diffinission de Amurs), incipit: 'Ky veut verrei amur aver il deit'. For the text see T. Hunt, 'Anglo-Norman Rules of Friendship', French Studies Bulletin, 30 (1989), 9-11.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v
Title:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever
Scope & Content:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (Chronique de Charlemagne), incipit: 'Cj comence le stoire qui / Turpin le ercevesque / de reins'. For the text see Walpole 1976; listed with other four copies in Shepherd 1996. Decoration: Initials in red or blue. 2 drawings of hybrids in brown ink (ff. 95v, 102v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 103r-110r
Title:: Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers
Scope & Content:: Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers; incipit: 'Ceo sunt les auctoritees. Seint / Gregoyre le pape'. For the text see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 672, 772, 781, 891, 951,
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 110v-112v
Title:: Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:: Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams, followed by a prose text relating to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; incipit: 'En le nun Jhesu crist. Ci comence une me/ditacion'. For the texts see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 635, 861. Decoration: Initials in red. Two diagrams in red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 113r-190v
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés
Scope & Content:: William of Waddington, Manuel des pechiez; Rubric 'Le prologe del manuel des pechiez', incipit: 'La vertue del seint espirit'. Last section (ff. 181v-191v) copied by the Ludlow scribe and compiler, including (ff. 190v-191r) a table of venial and mortal sins. An edition of the text from the prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 77 folios.

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 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

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