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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273
Title:: Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:: A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1300-1349
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 1r-69v
Title:: Psalter, Hours of the Virgin and Hours of the Dead
Scope & Content:: The first unit of the manuscript includes: 1. Calendar, with a dedication (f. 1v) of the parish church of St. Laurence at Ludlow ('lodelowe') (ff. 1r-6v); 2. Indulgences by Popes Innocent Urbanus IV and John XXII, added to a blank page by the Ludlow scribe (f. 7r) 3. Psalter, incipit: 'Benoy...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 69 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour, Robert Grosseteste, Rules, and other text including charms.
Scope & Content:: The second unit of the manuscript includes: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love) (ff. 70r-81r); Robert Grosseteste, Rules (ff. 81r-85r); Rules of Friendship or La Diffinission de Amurs (ff. 85r-85v); Charm against wounds (f. 85v) and Charm for bloodletting (f. 85v). Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle; Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:: The third unit of the manuscript includes: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (ff. 86r-102v), Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers (ff. 103r-110r); Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams (ff. 110v-112v); Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever (f. 11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 26 folios.

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 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.

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