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211. Harley MS 941, ff 97v-100r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 97v-100r
Title:
Satirical verse against the clergy
Scope & Content:
Satirical verse against the clergy, incipit: 'Viri beatissimi sacerdotes Dei / Precones altissimi lucerne Diei' (ff. 97v-99r) with notes (ff. 99v-100r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

212. Harley MS 941, ff 100v-103v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 100v-103v
Title:
'Modus acquirendi sapientiam'
Scope & Content:
A text entitled 'Modus acquirendi sapientiam', incipit: 'Volentibus parvenire ad sapientiam'. Added note, incipit: 'Opto illud in contingere' (f. 103r-103v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

213. Harley MS 941, ff 104r-120v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 104r-120v
Title:
'De sufficientia partium epistole'
Scope & Content:
'De sufficientia partium epistole', incipit: 'Secundum quodam sufficit parte epistole'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
17 folios.

214. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

215. Harley MS 978, f 38r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, f 38r
Title:
Two letters
Scope & Content:
Two letters: 1. Incipit: 'Abbas Westmonasteriensis salutem', explicit: 'tempora longiora'; 2. Incipit: 'Viro venerabili et discreto R.', explicit: 'vobis duxerit intimandum'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 folio.

216. Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:
1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
14 folios.

217. Harley MS 978, ff 15v-21v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 15v-21v
Title:
Calendar with prognostications
Scope & Content:
Calendar with prognostications. Only the entries for January and February (ff. 15v-16r) are complete with prognostications and references to the deaths of abbots of Reading, while prognostications for May-August were supplied by a 15th-century hand. References to the abbots' deaths on ff. 15v-16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
7 folios.

218. Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

219. Harley MS 978, ff 38r-39v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 38r-39v
Title:
Short texts in prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Short texts in prose and verse by various hands. Rubric (f. 38v): 'Dicta cuidam Goliardi anglici', incipit: 'Omnibus in Gallia anglus Goliardus': see H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1969), no. 13306; incipit: 'Quatuor e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
2 folios.

220. Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v
Title:
Marie de France, Fables
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
28 folios.

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