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Robbins Library Digital Projects > TEAMS Middle English Texts > The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volume 2 > Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253

Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253

BOOKLET 1 (quires 1–2, Scribe A)
 
1.
1a.		 fols. 1ra–21vb
fols. 21vb–22ra 		French verse
French verse		 The Lives of the Fathers
The Story of Thais
 
BOOKLET 2 (quires 3–4, Scribe A)
 
2.
3.
3a.
3b.
4.
5.
6.
7.		 fols. 23ra–33va
fols. 33va–39rb
fol. 39rb
fols. 39va–41va
fols. 41va–43vb
fols. 43vb–45vb
fols. 45vb–47vb
fols. 47vb–48vb		 French verse
French prose
French prose
French prose
French prose
French prose
French prose
French prose		 Herman de Valenciennes, The Passion of Our Lord
The Gospel of Nicodemus
The Letter of Pilate to Tiberias
The Letter of Pilate to Emperor Claudius
The Life of Saint John the Evangelist
The Life of Saint John the Baptist
The Life of Saint Bartholomew
The Passion of Saint Peter
 
BOOKLET 3 (quire 5, Scribes B and C)
 
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.		 fols. 49r–50v
fols. 51ra–52va
fol. 52va
fol. 52va
fol. 52vb
fol. 52vb
fol. 52vb
fol. 52vb
fol. 52vb
fol. 52vb		 French verse
French verse
English prose
English prose
English prose
English prose
English prose
English prose
English prose
English prose		 ABC of Women
Debate between Winter and Summer
How to Make Red Vermilion
How to Temper Azure
How to Make Grass-Green
How to Make Another Kind of Green
Another for Yellow-Green
How to Apply Silverfoil
How to Make Iron as Hard as Steel
How to Make White Lead
 
BOOKLET 4 (quire 6, Scribe B)
 
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
24a.
24a*.
24b.
25.
25a.
26.
27.		 fols. 53ra–54vb
fol. 54vb
fol. 55ra–b
fols. 55va–56vb
fols. 57r–58v
fols. 58v–59r
fol. 59r–v
fol. 59v
fol. 59v
fol. 59v
fols. 59v–61v
fol. 61v
fols. 61v–62v
fol. 62v		 Latin prose
Latin verse
French verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
French verse
French verse
Latin verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
French verse
English verse		 The Life of Saint Ethelbert
Soul of Christ, Sanctify Me
A Goliard’s Feast
Harrowing of Hell
Debate between Body and Soul
A Song of Lewes
Lament for Simon de Montfort
Carnal Love Is Folly
What Allures Is Momentary
Earth upon Earth
The Execution of Sir Simon Fraser
On the Follies of Fashion
Lesson for True Lovers
The Three Foes of Man
 
BOOKLET 5 (quires 7–11, Scribe B)
 
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29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72		 fol. 63r–v
fol. 63v
fol. 63v
fol. 64r
fols. 64va–65vb
fol. 66r
fol. 66v
fols. 66v–67r
fol. 67r
fols. 67va–68va
fols. 68va–70rb
fol. 70rb–v
fols. 70va/71ra/71va
fols. 70vb/71rb
fol. 71va
fols. 71vb–72ra
fol. 72ra–va
fols. 72va–73rb
fol. 73r–v
fols. 73v–74v
fol. 75ra–b
fols. 75rb–va
fol. 75va–b
fol. 75vb
fol. 76r
fol. 76r
fol. 76r
fols. 76v–77r
fol. 77va
fols. 77vb–78va
fols. 78vb–79rb
fol. 79rb–vb
fol. 79vb
fol. 80ra
fol. 80rb
fol. 80v
fols. 80v–81r
fol. 81r–v
fol. 81va–b
fols. 82ra–83r
fol. 83r
fols. 83r–92v
fols. 92v–105r
fol. 105va–b		 English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
French verse
French prose
French prose
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
French verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
French verse
Trilingual verse
French verse
French verse
English verse
French verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
English verse
French & English verse
English verse
French prose
Latin prose		 Annot and John
Alysoun
The Lover’s Complaint
Song of the Husbandman
The Life of Saint Marina
The Poet’s Repentance
The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale
The Meeting in the Wood
A Beauty White as Whal Bone
Gilote and Johane
Pilgrimages in the Holy Land
The Pardons of Acre
Satire on the Consistory Court
The Laborers in the Vineyard
Spring
Advice to Women
An Old Man’s Prayer
Blow, Northern Wind
The Death of Edward I
The Flemish Insurrection
The Joys of Our Lady
Sweet Jesus, King of Bliss
Jesus Christ, Heaven’s King
A Winter Song
A Spring Song on the Passion
I Pray to God and Saint Thomas
While You Play in Flowers
Song on Jesus’ Precious Blood
Mary, Mother of the Savior
Jesus, Sweet Is the Love of You
Sermon on God’s Sacrifice and Judgment
Stand Well, Mother, under Rood
Jesus, by Your Great Might
I Sigh When I Sing
An Autumn Song
The Clerk and the Girl
When the Nightingale Sings
Blessed Are You, Lady
The Five Joys of the Virgin
Maximian
Maiden, Mother Mild
King Horn
Ludlow Scribe, Old Testament Stories
Names of the Books of the Bible
 
BOOKLET 6 (quires 12–14, Scribe B)
 
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74
75
75a.
76
77
78
79.
80.
81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
99.		 fol. 106r
fols. 106ra–107rb
fols. 107va–109vb
fol. 110ra–va
fols. 110vb–111rb
fol. 111rb–vb
fol. 112ra–b
fols. 112rc–113vc
fols. 113vb–114v
fols. 114v–115r
fols. 115va–117ra
fols. 117ra–118rb
fol. 118rb–vb
fols. 119ra–121ra
fols. 121ra–122va
fols. 122vb–124va
fols. 124va–125r
fols. 125ra–127ra
fol. 127rb–va
fol. 127va–b
fol. 128r
fol. 128r–v
fols. 128v–129v
fols. 129v–130v
fol. 131r
fols. 131v–132r
fols. 132r–133r
fol. 133v		 English verse
English verse
French verse
French verse
French verse
French verse
French verse
French verse
French verse
English verse
French verse
French verse
French verse
English verse
French verse
French verse
English verse
English verse
English prose
French prose
English verse
English verse
French prose
French prose
French prose
Latin prose
Latin prose
French & Latin prose		 God Who Wields All This Might
The Sayings of Saint Bernard
The Jongleur of Ely and the King of England
The Three Ladies Who Found a Prick
The Song on Women
The Blame of Women
Nicholas Bozon, Women and Magpies
Urbain the Courteous
Trailbaston
The Man in the Moon
The Knight and the Basket
Against Marriage
The Wager, or The Squire and the Chambermaid
A Book of Dreaming
The Order of Fair Ease
The Knight Who Made Vaginas Talk
Satire on the Retinues of the Great
Hending
The Prophecy of Thomas of Erceldoune
Distinguishing Features of the Bodily Form of Jesus Christ Our Lord
The Way of Christ’s Love
The Way of Woman’s Love
The Teachings of Saint Louis to His Son Philip
The Land of the Saracens
Heraldic Arms of Kings
Letter for Pilgrims on the Relics at Oviedo
The Legend of Saint Etfrid, Priest of Leominster
Prayer for Protection
 
BOOKLET 7 (quire 15, Scribe B)
 
100.
101.
102.
103.
104.
105.
106.
107.
108.
108a.
109.
109a.    
110.
111.
112.
113.
114.
115.
116.		 fol. 134r
fol. 134r
fol. 134v
fol. 134v
fol. 134v–135r
fol. 135r
fol. 135r
fol. 135r
fol. 135v
fol. 135v
fols. 135v–136r
fol. 136r
fol. 136r–v
fols. 136v–137r    
fol. 137r
fol. 137r–v
fols. 137v–138v
fols. 138v–140r
fol. 140v		 French prose
French prose
French verse
Latin prose
French verse & prose    
Latin prose
French prose
French prose
French prose
French prose
Latin prose
French prose
Latin prose
French prose
Latin prose
Latin prose
French & Latin verse
French prose
Latin prose		 Occasions for Angels
Occasions for Psalms in French
Glory to God in the Highest in French
Prayer of Confession
Prayer on the Five Joys of Our Lady
Prayer for Contrition
Reasons for Fasting on Friday
Seven Masses to Be Said in Misfortune
Seven Masses in Honor of God and Saint Giles
Prayer to the Three Kings
All the World’s a Chess Board
Three Prayers That Never Fail
Occasions for Psalms in Latin
Occasions for Psalms Ordained by Saint Hilary of Poitiers
Heliotrope and Celandine
Saint Anselm’s Questions to the Dying
Against the King’s Taxes
Seven Hours of the Passion of Jesus Christ
The Martyrdom of Saint Wistan


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