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1. Harley MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 235
Title:
Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1561-1592
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 2303

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

3. Harley MS 2308

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

4. Harley MS 2338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2376
Title:
William Langland, Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-124r: William Langland, Piers Plowman (the 'C' (N) text). Decoration: Numerous large initials in red ink with purple penwork decoration, with oak leaves in red ink decorating the rubric (f. 1r). Rubric on a scroll drawn in red ink (f. 51r). Parts of the text framed in red in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2382
Title:
Middle English verse collection including Lydgate's Life of Our Lady and Chaucer's Prioress' Tale and Second Nun's Tale
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2574) ff.75r-86r: The Assumption of Our Lady(New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2165) ff. 86v-87r: Prayer to the Virgin from the Speculum Christiani (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2119...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 2392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2392
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume