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1121. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1122. Harley MS 1294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1294
Title:
Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo; Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum; Galand of Reigny, De Colloquio Vitiorum; sermons by Peter Comestor and Hildebert of Lavardin; Allegories of the Old and New Testament; (?) William de Montibus, Peniteas cito peccator
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Gregory the Great, Liber Pastoralis Curae. ff. 39r-40v: Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Antichristo. ff. 41r-87r: Peter Cantor, Verbum Abbreviatum (abridged selections) ff. 88r-89v: Part of Galand of Reigny [Galandus Regniacensis], De Colloquio Vitiorum, from his Parabolari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1123. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1124. Harley MS 367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 367
Title:
Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle. f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584. ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1125. Harley MS 4984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4984
Title:
Collection of texts about St Martin of Tours: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini, Epistolae, Dialogi (books 1-3); Gregory of Tours, De Virtutibus Sancti Martini and Libri Octo Miraculorum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours (d. 397) by Sulpicius Severus (b. c. 363, d. c. 425) and Gregory of Tours (b. c. 538, d. 594). The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contempo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1126. Harley MS 635

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 635
Title:
Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; Thomas Waleys, De modo praedicandi; Augustine, Retractationes; and other theological works by Pelagius, William Woodford, John Wycliffe, Nicholas Radcliffe, Anselm of Canterbury, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Ambrose, Hugh of Saint-Victor, and Evagrius of Antioch
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Simon Alcock, Tractatus de modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda; two other copies of this work survive in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 52, ff. 102–108, and Oxford, Lincoln College, MS 101, item 2. f. 5r: Jerome, Vita Malchi monachi captivi (prologue)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1127. Harley MS 402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 402
Title:
Twelve collections (Distinctiones) of excerpts from Church Fathers and other authorities
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains twelve collections of excerpts from, or attributed to: the Church Fathers St Ambrose (b. c. 340, d. 397), St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), St John Chrysostom (b. c. 349, d. 407), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), and St Isid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1128. Harley MS 1701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1701
Title:
Robert Mannyng, Handlyng Synne; Meditations on the Supper of Our Lord and the Hours of the Passion; King Robert of Sicily; a mass against the plague
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Robert Mannyng [Robert Mannyng of Brunne] (d. in or after 1338), Handlyng Synne, a Middle English translation of the Anglo-Norman French Manuel des pechiez, attributed to William of Waddington (late 13th century) [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 778], enti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

1 volume

1129. Harley MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 104
Title:
Stephen Langton, Expositio Libri Duodecim Prophetarum; Gregory the Great, De Cura Pastorali; Richard of St-Victor, Allegoriae Novi Testamenti and De Oratione Dominica; Innocent III, De Missarum Mysteriis and Sermo VI
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century (before c. 1225 and after 1206 or 1215) was probably written for a clerical audience since it contains works that would have helped priests in explaining biblical texts to the laity and instructed them in their duties of pastoral c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

1130. Harley MS 565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 565
Title:
Chronicle of London; an English poem on the expedition of Henry V into France; John Lydgate, King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A list of the kings of England, from Alfred [Aelfred] (b. 848/9, d. 899), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons, to Henry VI (b. 1421, d. 1471), King of England and Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine. Title (f. 1r): 'Nomina Regum & quot Annis regnarunt'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:

1 volume

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