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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés and Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit of the manuscript includes: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés (ff. 113r-190v); Purgatoire de S. Patrice (ff. 191v-197v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 85 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 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 321
Title:: Scientific miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes miscellanous texts, mainly on astronomy: ff. 1r-1v: title page and tables of contents. ff. 2r-14r: calendar from 1387 to 1462 (Calendarium minus and calendarium majus). f. 15r: astronomical table, entitled 'Tabula lune, ad faciendum eius gradum omni die'. ff. 16r-16v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1382-1605
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, f 15r
Title:: Astronomical table
Scope & Content:: Astronomical table entitled 'Tabula lune, ad faciendum eius gradum omni die'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1387-1424
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, f 23r
Title:: Canon annuli perpetui
Scope & Content:: A text entitled 'Canon annuli perpetui'; incipit: 'Nota q[uod] in annulo [com]pota sunt'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, f 28v (item 1)
Title:: Notabilia de etatibus mundi
Scope & Content:: Rubric: 'Notabilia de etatibus mundi'; incipit: 'nota quod sed conputacionem'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 321, f 28v (item 2)
Title:: Tractatus de sphera
Scope & Content:: Rubric: 'Tractatus de sphera'; incipit: 'De causis eclipsil sol et lune.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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