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Details for manuscript 528

Manuscript №
528
Location
London
Collection
British Library
Reference
Harley 4971
Headnote
Manuel des péchés etc.
Estimated date of production
s.xiv (ex)
Folia
131
Place of production
Suffolk
Produced for
Bury St Edmunds
Notes
bound together after 1390 ; with ff. 1 and 129-131 flyleaves + 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end; composite MS; f. 128 contains verses on love in a 15th c hand ; the first part contains the name of "Willelmus Smyth" (41v) ; "A different fifteenth-century hand wrote that the book belonged to Bury St Edmunds' and also copied a table of contents of the major parts (3r), which indicates that these were bound together by the fifteenth century" ; contents between 30r and 32v and between 34v and 41v uncertain ; language of table of contents uncertain
Sources for this record
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4716&CollID=8&NStart=4971
https://hdl.handle.net/1887/50536

Manuscript contents

Contents
Text Title Language Start folio (ordinal) End folio (ordinal) Total pages
1 Table of contents Latin 3r (5) 3r (5) 1.0
2 Orthographia Gallica (A-N) (Dean no. 287), ff. 4r-6v French 4r (7) 6v (12) 3.0
3 Various Vocabularies (Dean no. 300), ff. 4r-6v, 33v French 4r (7) 6v (12) 3.0
4 Domestic Economy (A-N) (Dean no. 397), ff. 7r-9r French 7r (13) 9v (18) 5.0
5 Ars Dictaminis (A-N) (Dean no. 317), ff. 9r-22v French 9r (17) 22v (44) 27.0
6 Conjugations from Donatus (A-N) (Dean no. 293), ff. 23r-26r French 23r (45) 26r (51) 6.5
7 On household expenses dated 1365, including expense roll of John Bromleye, clerk of the household of Ralph, Earl of Stafford, f. 27r-v Latin 26r (51) 29v (58) 7.0
8 beg. "hic incipiunt" et. Latin 29v (58) 29v (58) 0.5
9 Record of a loan from Roger E. to Isabella Cornwayl, f. 33r Latin 33r (65) 33r (65) 1.0
10 Various Vocabularies (Dean no. 300), ff. 4r-6v, 33v French 33v (66) 33v (66) 1.0
11 Medical Prescriptions (A-N) (Dean no. 439), f. 34r French 34r (67) 34r (67) 1.0
12 Legal formulary, ff. 42r-65v Latin 42r (83) 65v (130) 48.0
13 Statutes, ff. 66r-92v Latin 66r (131) 92v (184) 54.0
14 Manuel des péchés (Dean no. 635), including The Fall, Harrowing of Hell, and Passion (A-N) (Dean no. 599) on f. 123v French 93r (185) 127r (253) 69.0
15 La Rounde Table French 127v (254) 127v (254) 0.5
16 Grant of land at Aldwinkle Latin 127v (254) 127v (254) 0.5
17 Capitulum de Purificatione beate Marie moralisata Latin 128v (256) 128v (256) 0.5
18 Middle English verse English 128v (256) 128v (256) 0.5

Owners of this manuscript

Owners
Owner number Owner Period Gender Type Source
1 Bury St Edmunds s.xv Man Clerical http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4716&CollID=8&NStart=4971 ; https://hdl.handle.net/1887/50536