Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Digitised Content: Yes (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 116r-132v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium including: prognostications (ff. 116r-117v), incipit: 'Luna prima omnibus rebus agendis and utilis'), a diagram of elements and humors (f. 118r), a table (f. 118v), several astrological prognostications beginning with a chart, incipit: 'I consyderyd in this quostion...' (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2277
Title:: South English Legendary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2278
Title:: John Lydgate, Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund
Scope & Content:: The presentation copy of John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. Commissioned by Abbot William Curetys for presentation to King Henry VI upon or shortly after his visit to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds between Christmas 1433 and Easter 1434. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1434-1439
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2280
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-98r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585), beginning: 'The double sorowe of troilus to tellen / Þat was þe kynge Priamus sone of Troye / In lovynge how hise avent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2284
Title:: Account book of the Great Wardrobe from the reign of Henry VIII (8-12 Henery VIII)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-53r: An account book of the Great Wardrobe from the 8th to the 12th years of the reign of King Henry VIII, with a title inscription on a parchment leaf (f. 1*recto): ‘The boke of Delyveraunce and Discharge of the kinges standyng warderobe of his Robes within the towre of L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1516-1521
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2308
Title:: Accounts of the coronation of Edward VI and his reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-120r: A treatise on ‘The Maner of Coronation of Kinge Edward the Sixth’; followed by abstracts of entries in the Council book of King Edward VI from the beginning of his reign to 6 February 1549-50.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320
Title:: Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320, f 71r
Title:: Medical recipe
Scope & Content:: Medical recipe, incipit: 'Take fetherwoy mylfoyle, mogewort / Rodeworte scabeiyse and merche / off eche off these'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio, followed by two folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320, f 73r
Title:: Prognostication by dominical letter
Scope & Content:: Prognostication by dominical letter; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 589.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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