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441. Harley MS 1687, f 1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1687, f 1v
Title:
List of letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Scope & Content:
A list of letters of the Hebrew alphabet in Latin transliteration with Latin translations.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

442. Harley MS 1687, ff 2r-127r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1687, ff 2r-127r
Title:
Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to Gulielmus Britonis (William Brito)
Scope & Content:
Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito, edited in L. W. and B. A. Daly, Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie (Padua, 1975; Thesaurus Mundi, 15, 16). It is an early copy of the Expositiones which were completed between 1250 and 1270 and cir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1260-c 1280
Extent:
126 folios.

443. Harley MS 1687, ff 128r-139r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1687, ff 128r-139r
Title:
Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei, part I
Scope & Content:
Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei, part I; incipit: 'Ferrum situ rubiginem ducit et uitis non putata in labruscam siluescit'. Neckam was abbot of Cirencester and a scholar. His work comprises a treatise on grammatical criticism followed by a scriptural commentary. Decoration: Initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1260-c 1280
Extent:
12 folios.

444. 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

445. Harley MS 1703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1703
Title:
William Forrest, Poems
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: A ‘Prologe in the warke followinge’. ff. 3v-22v: A ‘Treatyse uppon the Salutation of the moste gloryous virgyn Marye, and that all praysinges that eaver hathe beene saide of her (After the sayinge of saincte Augustyne) are farre Insuffycient to her worthynes, and honoure:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 volume

446. Harley MS 1704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1704
Title:
Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

447. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

448. Harley MS 1706, f 215r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, f 215r
Title:
Suffrage to Saint Ethelburga
Scope & Content:
An added suffrage to Saint Ethelburga.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
1 folio.

449. Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
2 folios.

450. Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
93 folios.

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