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121. Harley MS 1783

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1783
Title:
Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Common Law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-123v: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Common Law, with a title 'Maximes of the Lawe written by Sir Francis Bacon January 8th Anno Domini 1596'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1596
Extent:
1 volume

122. Harley MS 1802

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1802
Title:
Gospels of Máel Brigte
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the Gospels of Máel Brigte, is a Latin Gospel-book with additional texts and extensive marginal and interlinear glosses in Latin and Irish, especially in the Gospel of St Matthew. The glosses used to be associated with the cathedral school in Paris (following Glunz, 'Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1138
Extent:
1 volume

123. Harley MS 1927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1927
Title:
Poems by the Chester arms-painters Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-53v: A collection of English poems and Latin sayings by Thomas Chaloner (d. 1598), dated to 1575-1577. ff. 54r-120v: A collection of English poems and notes by Randle Holme I (b. 1570/71, d. 1655), dated to 1616-1638. One poem on ff. 60v-61r (‘The Songe called the Buttned smo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1575-1638
Extent:
1 volume

124. Harley MS 2013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2013
Title:
The Chester Cycle
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: William Newall, Clerk of Chester, Proclamation for Whitsone Playes (1531/2); claiming that the Chester cycle was written by 'Sir Henry Frances sometyme Mooncke there'. ff. 1r-3v: The Banns (‘The Banes which are Reade Bee Fore The Beginninge of the playes of Chester 1600’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600
Extent:
1 volume

125. Harley MS 2160

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2160
Title:
Arraignment and execution of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex
Scope & Content:
A collection of material relating to the arraignment and execution of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, soldier and politician (1565–1601). f. 1*, f. 13: Flyleaves: a 16th-century legal document concerning the lease of the manor of Poulton, and other lands, in Chester. ff. 1r-10v: Accoun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

126. Harley MS 2250

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2250
Title:
Middle English Life of Christ and other saints' Lives and theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44r: Middle English stanzaic Life of Christ in verse (Circumcision, the first leaf of which has been misbound between ff. 44 and f. 45; Epiphay; Purification of the Virgin Mary; Innocents; Septuagesima; Sexagesima; Quinquagesima; Quadragesima; Lent; the Passion; Pilate; Judas; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

127. Harley MS 2251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2251
Title:
Collection of poems by John Lydgate, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Benedict Burgh
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains poems by some of the most renowned poets from Late Medieval England, including John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. c. 1451), Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), and Benedict Burgh (b. 1413, d. 1483). The collection of poems by John Lydgate is believed to be derived from a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1460-1483
Extent:
1 volume

128. Harley MS 2252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2252
Title:
The Commonplace Book of John Colyns, including Ipomydon, B version, and the stanzaic Morte Arthur
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript comprises two booklets of Middle English poetry and prose (ff. 54-85, 86-133) that were compiled into one volume in the early 16th century by John Colyns (d. c. 1542), mercer, of the parish of St Mary Woolchurch Haw, London. The manuscript contains the unique copies o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

129. Harley MS 2255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2255
Title:
A collection of poems by John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetry by or attributed to John Lydgate (c. 1370-1449/50?), containing 45 Middle English poems, mostly religious. McCracken considered as Lydgate's all but two of the poems (Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas and A Satirical Description of his Lady), whose aut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1470
Extent:

1 volume

130. Harley MS 2277

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2277
Title:
South English Legendary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

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