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1391. Harley MS 6555

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6555
Title:
Collection of theological tracts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54r: Collection of theological tracts in English and Latin, including headings such as 'Actions indifferent, whether any, in individuo et respectuo operantis'; 'On Mat. ult. 18. Data est mihi omnis potestas'; 'Plausus auditorum'; 'About breakinge prison'; 'Pelagiani'; 'Judaeoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1392. Harley MS 6556

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6556
Title:
'A Compendious Treatise of Pleasure’; 'Of the Minde of Manne, his Reasone, and Will'; English prayers to God; a prayer for Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: The opening of ‘A Compendious Treatise of Pleasure’, beginning ‘Of Pleasure, what it is, and how to bee trulie understanded according to the minde of God in the best parte: the Glorie also of the same, and where it chiefelie resteth in Manne: As also of the Pleasure, which to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1393. Harley MS 6561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6561
Title:
George Boleyn, translation of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples’s Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an, made for his sister Anne Boleyn
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-202v: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (b. c. 1450, d. 1536), Epistres et Evangiles des cinquante et deux sepmaines de l'an [Epistles and Gospels for the Fifty-two Weeks of the Year], translated into English and French by George Boleyn (b. c. 1504, d. 1536), Viscount Rochford, for his...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1532-1533
Extent:
1 volume

1394. Harley MS 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6573
Title:
Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-114v: Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection (Books 1 and 2). Decoration: Numerous large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in blue (ff. 1*r-2*v); paraph marks in red (ff. 3r-114r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1395. Harley MS 6576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6576
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis; Latin translation by Thomas Fishlake (fl. 1377). ff. 128r-136r: Liber Vitae, beginning: 'De hiis que primo consideranda sunt tendenti ad perfeccionem contemplationis et ad vitam religiosam'. ff. 136v-138v: John Chrysostom, De eo quod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1396. Harley MS 6577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6577
Title:
Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi; Pseudo-Augustine, De visitatione infirmorum; Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam; Epistola beate marie ad sancti ignatium; Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastoralis; Bona Expositio Orationis Dominicae; Divisio Symboli Apostoli; Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Gregory the Great, Homilies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), De visitatione infirmorum [here entitled: ‘de consolatione infirmorum’] (On the Visitation of the Sick). f. 46r: A letter of St Ignatius to the Virgin Mary and her reply (‘Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam’; ‘Epistola beat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1454
Extent:

1 volume

1397. Harley MS 6579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6579
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-140r: Walter Hilton (d. 1396), an Austin monk at Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire, The Scale of Perfection.Beginning: 'Ghostly sister in ihesu crist I preie þe þat in þe calling whilke oure lord hath callid þe to his servise: þou halde þe paied and stond stedfastly þerinne'; opening...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1398. Harley MS 6582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6582
Title:
Theological notes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-172r: A collection of notes on theological subjects, organised alphabetically. ff. 173r-173v: An index of subjects.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1399. Harley MS 6592

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6592
Title:
Copies of William Flower, Visitation of Northumberland (1575), and William Flower and Robert Glover, Visitation of Derbyshire (1569); pedigrees and arms from Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland, Staffordshire and Yorkshire
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript predominantly contains pedigrees and arms of families in Durham, Derbyshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. The main part (ff. 2r-67v) was written by William Wyrley (b. 1565, d. 1613) between 1590 and 1592; the additions (ff. 68r-116r) appear to have been made a few...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

1400. Harley MS 6613

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6613
Title:
Lanterne of Light
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1409-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

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