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London, British Library, Harley MS 2398

Item

Modern shelfmark

London, British Library, Harley MS 2398

Owned by

British Library

Codex title

Devotional treatises and sermons

Manuscript or print

[Manuscript]

Modern location

London, UK

Composed of

Memoriale credencium (BL, Harley MS 2398)
The Fifteen Oes (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Treatise of the Ten Commandments (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Bonus tractatus de quinque sensibus (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Treatise (Inc. It byhoueþ specially to euery man þat desyreþ to loue our Lord Ihesu Christ, inwardly in Herte, fyve þynges) (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Redde Racionem Villicacionis Tue (Sermon, 1388) (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Commentary on Pater Noster (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Visitacio Infirmorum (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Treatise on wedded men, wives, and their children (BL, Harley MS 2398)
A discourse upon the Lords Prayer (inc. Syþþe þe Pater noster is þe beste Prayer þat is) (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Treatise on virtues and vices (inc. As witnesseþ Holy Writ & holy Doctours þer beþ two weyes contrarious, þat ledeþ to two contrarious endes) (BL, Harkey MS 2398)
Sermo in die Pasche (BL, Harley MS 2398)
A Memorandum of the decease of Thomas Sarjeant 25 August 1558, by John Sarjeant (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Contemplations, Chapter AB, What maner men or women of simple conning mowe thenke or preie in her begynning (BL, Harley MS 2398)
Regula Christiana (BL, Harley MS 2398)

Production date

1375-1400

Location created

England

Contains reference to Birgitta

1

Extent

1 + 2 + 193

Writing support

Parchment

Leaf page dimensions

190 mm x 125 mm

Folios

193

related link

Online catalogue entry
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol 2 (1808)

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