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111. Harley MS 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2388
Title:
Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:
This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

112. Harley MS 2389

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Harley MS 2389
Title:
Scope & Content:
A Commonplace Book including Medical, Culinary, Arboricultural and Fishing Recipes, Charms and Instructions; 16th cent. Middle English. Imperfect. A commonplace or household book, containing circa six-hundred medical recipes and charms, including culinary and fishing (ff. 73-73v) recipes and arb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

113. Harley MS 2390

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Harley MS 2390
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Compendium; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Partly copy. Imperfect. The compendium contains texts relating to medicine and the regimen of health in Latin and Middle English, interspersed with collections of medical recipes (ff. 57v-58v, 59v-72, 75, 76-91v, 100v-102v, 107-108v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

114. Harley MS 2391

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Harley MS 2391
Title:
Collection of sermons, exempla and didactic works in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prognostications for Christmas day and subsequent days (Latin). ff. 2r-133r: John Mirk, Festial, Middle English sermons from Advent to St Katherine. ff. 133r-133v: The Nine Virtues, shown by God to a ‘gud and a hely man’. f. 134r: The Ten Commandments, here entitled ‘D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

115. 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

116. Harley MS 2394

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Harley MS 2394
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-129r: Prick of Conscience; imperfect at the beginning: loss of text on ff. 1-7 due to damage to folios; ff. 128r-129r have been substituted for lost leaves in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 77r: A Middle English verse, ‘After my warkes deme no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 2395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2395
Title:
Parish register of Steventon, 1559-1599
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A parish register of Steventon, recording baptisms, marriages and burials between 1559 and 1599. ff. 57r-58r: An account of ministers who preached in the church of Steventon from 1573 to 1578.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1559-1599
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 2396

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Harley MS 2396
Title:
Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78v: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels, beginning incompletely in the epistle sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, and ending with the Friday gospel sermon for the 5th week after the Octave of Epiphany. For a detailed list of sermo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

119. Harley MS 2397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2397
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, The Mixed Life, and Bonum Est
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection (Book II). ff. 73r-85r: Walter Hilton, The Mixed Life. ff. 85v-94r: Walter Hilton, Bonum Est (a commentary on Psalm 91). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-4*v, 95-98v: Fragments of a 14th-century liturgical manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

120. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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