London, British Library, Harley 7322
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Country:England
Settlement:London
Repository: British Library
Idno:Harley 7322
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Date and Language
Date:?s. xiv
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 409 256, LP 7860 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 244). The scribal dialect of ff. 152r-163v has been located to Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 113).
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Contents
The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses. Only the English verses are listed here.

Item: 1
Locus:f. 7r
Title:Meditation on the Passion (IMEV 4107)
Incipit:'Ho žat siž him on že rode'.
Explicit:'žat of loue amen'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 249.

Item: 2
Locus:f. 7v
Title:The Signs of Death (IMEV 4033)
Incipit:'Whanne že ffet coldet?'.
Explicit:'Nou shal he hauen mys'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, pp. 249-50.

Item: 3
Locus:f. 8r
Title:Three Sorrowful Things (IMEV 1615)
Incipit:'Hit beož žreo tymes on žo day'.
Explicit:'whider shal fare'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 250.

Item: 4
Locus:f. 42v
Title:Two couplets in a Latin exemplum (IMEV 3646)
Incipit:'Žis water žis lyoun dragoun also dreden me so sore'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 5
Locus:f. 45v
Title:Couplet translating 'Nupcie moriar quia nubere dulce est' (IMEV 827.5)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:Occurs in some manuscripts of the Fasciculus Morum
Bibliography:

Item: 6
Locus:f. 64r
Title:The Reply of the Oracle on the Sins of the Time (IMEV 4273)
Incipit:'?issinge and glosinge'.
Explicit:'žer boden as ich am aferd'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 251.

Item: 7
Locus:f. 79r
Title:The Vicissitudes of Life (IMEV 1822)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:A tag from the Fasciculus Morum.
Bibliography:

Item: 8
Locus:f. 91v
Title:Sentences on the Four Philosophers (IMEV 2167)
Incipit:'Might is right'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 251.

Item: 9
Locus:f. 103v
Title:Curse Caused by Adam's Sin (IMEV 4208)
Incipit:'Wiž wo & drede i am born'.
Explicit:'adam haue že stiž'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 252.

Item: 10
Locus:f. 121r
Title:Description of a dying person (IMEV 187)
Incipit:'Alle his frendes he shal beo lož'.
Explicit:'Ne shal žou haue bute aclout'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 253.

Item: 11
Locus:f. 121v
Title:Covetous Man (IMEV 2695)
Incipit:'On hit is and ne hauež nožer'.
Explicit:'& leteže his soule ben vuel di?t'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 253.

Item: 12
Locus:f. 124v
Title:Qualities of Death (IMEV 3325)
Incipit:'Žo dedtur so is fals and falende'.
Explicit:'steorne and eke stellende'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 254.

Item: 13
Locus:f. 133v
Title:Christ Comes as a Champion (IMEV 2382)
Incipit:'Nou ?e alle beo glad and bliže'.
Explicit:'ich am an emperour a god felawe'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 254.

Item: 14
Locus:f. 134r
Title:Learn Love from Christ's Sufferings (IMEV 502)
Incipit:'Biholt žou man wiž routhful herte'.
Explicit:'Wel au?test žou of loue to lere'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 254.

Item: 15
Locus:f. 143v
Title:Christ Child Shivering with Cold (IMEV 1847)
Incipit:'Leorne to loue as ich loue že'.
Explicit:'And wite že from že colde'.
Note:A dialogue between Christ and the Virgin.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 257.

Item: 16
Locus:f. 136v
Title:Eve, Mary and Paradise (IMEV 3357)
Incipit:'Že ?ates of paradis žoruth eue weren iloken'.
Explicit:'A?ein him beož nouže open'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 257.

Item: 17
Locus:f. 136v
Title:Vanity of this World (IMEV 3411)
Incipit:'Že lif of žis world'.
Explicit:'Wiž drede we wenden'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 255.

Item: 18
Locus:f. 138v
Title:Man Made God's Brother (IMEV 3644)
Incipit:'Žis time man haž ouercome že fend and robbed helle'.
Explicit:'žou chaunge for non ožur'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 256.

Item: 19
Locus:f. 139v
Title:'In die bonorum non immemor sis malorum' (IMEV 1585)
Incipit:'Yn time of wele ženke on ži wo For že wele of žis world wole sone go'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 256.

Item: 20
Locus:f. 140v
Title:The Four Evils of Pride (IMEV 1217)
Incipit:'Hey priuet? gritliche'.
Explicit:'Hey drawež dredfulliche'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 256.

Item: 21
Locus:f. 141v
Title:Humility (IMEV 101)
Incipit:'A tokne of godes louiinge'.
Explicit:'A keye of redi vndoinge'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 257.

Item: 22
Locus:f. 143v
Title:Envy (IMEV 3506)
Incipit:'Rotež and brennež'.
Explicit:'and ase dež to že life'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 257.

Item: 23
Locus:f. 145r
Title:Anagram to L.O.V.E (IMEV 1634)
Incipit:'Hit is lawe žat faillež noth'
Explicit:
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 260.

Item: 24
Locus:f. 145r
Title:Evils of this Time (IMEV 2008)
Incipit:'Loue is out of lond iwent'.
Explicit:'Habbež žis lond one here baillye'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 257-8.

Item: 25
Locus:f. 147v
Title:The Four Benefits of Poverty (IMEV 1639)
Incipit:'Hit restež and hit quemež Hit richež and hit demež'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 260.

Item: 26
Locus:f. 149r
Title:A definition of chastity (IMEV 102)
Incipit:'A tresour of gret richesse'.
Explicit:'And an help of gret wynninge'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 260.

Item: 27
Locus:ff. 152r-163v
Title:Lines in a story from Gesta Romanorum (IMEV 3734)
Incipit:'Ži wyckede dedis že broutte to care'.
Explicit:'Here I take že to my spouse & ?iue že bože land & house'.
Note:Sermon exempla with English verses ff. 152r-163v.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, pp. 260-261.

Item: 28
Locus:f. 153r
Title:Ring inscriptions (IMEV 4203)
Incipit:'Wiž žis ring i wedde že & wit mi bodi i worssepe že'.
Explicit:
Note:A number of ring inscriptions. Many are illegible.
Bibliography:

Item: 29
Locus:f. 153v
Title:The Sinner's Lament (IMEV 221)
Incipit:'Al že io?e of oure herte nou is went awey'.
Explicit:'Žat euere we sennede weylawey že stonde'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 261.

Item: 30
Locus:f. 153v
Title:Christ came with Bloody Garments (IMEV 3907)
Incipit:'Wat is he žis žat comet so brith'.
Explicit:'& žerfore is his robe so red'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 259.

Item: 31
Locus:f. 154r
Title:Christ's Woe (IMEV 4259)
Incipit:'?e žat be žis wey pace'.
Explicit:'may be licnit nou to mine'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 261.

Item: 32
Locus:f. 154r
Title:An Apostrophe to Love/A Lover's Complaint (IMEV 2014)
Incipit:'Loue žou art of mikel mit'.
Explicit:'to ben myn euere more'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 262.

Item: 33
Locus:f. 155v
Title:True Love (IMEV 3511)
Incipit:'Žey loue be strong and mikel of mith'.
Explicit:'for trewloue is fress & euere neu'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 262.

Item: 34
Locus:f. 155v
Title:Tags from the Fasciculus Morum (IMEV 798)
Incipit:'ffyre water wynde & londe'.
Explicit:'bleželi i fitte že maistri forto take'.
Note:A series of four tags from the Fasciculus Morum.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 262.

Item: 35
Locus:f. 157r
Title:Trust not the World (IMEV 4224)
Incipit:'Worldis blisse strif hat wrout'
Explicit:'for it is not bot wiles of wo a hasardour žat wil že gile'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 263.

Item: 36
Locus:f. 157v
Title:Purity (IMEV 1137)
Incipit:'He is wel siker žat hat clennesse for al žat ožer renenant is not bot wrechedeness'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 263.

Item: 37
Locus:f. 158r
Title:Virgin and her Son, Man's Advocates (IMEV 2074)
Incipit:'God helpe hastou man & prest'.
Explicit:'žer of so gret loue is so gret tocning'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 264.

Item: 38
Locus:f. 158r
Title:On Mortality (IMEV 155)
Incipit:'Allas in gret sinne alle be?ete we were'.
Explicit:'de?e we ssulin sikerliche bot god wot wanne & werre'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 263.

Item: 39
Locus:f. 158r
Title:On the Mercy of God (IMEV 2155)
Incipit:'?if sinne nere mercie nere non'.
Explicit:'wan mon fro sinne will torne away'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 263.

Item: 40
Locus:f. 158r
Title:The King's Letter to his Son (IMEV 3106)
Incipit:'Sinne & fulže onli forsake'.
Explicit:'for redi is žin heritage & for?ouin is ži gilt'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 264.

Item: 41
Locus:f. 158r
Title:Couplet on Superbia (IMEV 1466)
Incipit:'In alle maner žrifte y passe alle žingge'
Explicit:
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 263.

Item: 42
Locus:f. 162v
Title:A Lover's Saying (IMEV 2141)
Incipit:'Me žingkit žou art so loueli so fair and so swete Žat sikerli it were mi det ži companie to lete'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 265. Robbins 1959, p. 144.

Item: 43
Locus:f. 162r
Title:The Evils of the Time (IMEV 592)
Incipit:'Charite chaste pite arn waxin al colde'.
Explicit:'Oker lieyng & wantonesse mickel serw make'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, pp. 264-5.

Item: 44
Locus:f. 162v
Title:Look to the End (IMEV 3610)
Incipit:'Žis is a wondir merie pley & longe ssal laste Bot for ži sete is perilous war že ate last'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 265.

Item: 45
Locus:f. 163r
Title:Foolish Love (IMEV 1269)
Incipit:'I am a fol i can no god'
Explicit:'& ?it i ssal sle mo'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 266.

Item: 46
Locus:f. 163r
Title:Lion, Bear, and Dragon (IMEV 3353)
Incipit:'Že formest of žese bestes žre'.
Explicit:'bot some wile y saue & some wile y noth'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 255-6.

Item: 47
Locus:f. 163r
Title:Ware the Wheel (IMEV 3647)
Incipit:'Žis wondir wel vndir žis trone'.
Explicit:'it ?elt hem euele her wile'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 265.

Item: 48
Locus:f. 163r
Title:Fortune's Wheel (IMEV 3680)
Incipit:'Žou most fort wit wele or wo'.
Explicit:'wit dulful det i wonde že sore'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 266.

Item: 49
Locus:f. 163v
Title:The Ten Ages of Man's Life (IMEV 3858)
Incipit:'Waich & wreschede žou art in sith'.
Explicit:'for žou art tornid to wormis mete'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 267.

Item: 50
Locus:f. 167r
Title:Inducement to repentance (IMEV 995)
Incipit:'Godes hore christes lore'.
Explicit:'And že blisse žat ner nis don'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 267.

Item: 51
Locus:f. 167r
Title:On the Mercy of God (IMEV 1131)
Incipit:'He abit žolemodliche'.
Explicit:'and he furžet holliche'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 269.

Item: 52
Locus:f. 168v
Title:The Suffering of Christ (IMEV 1267)
Incipit:'Hou ži fairness is bispit'.
Explicit:'Hou ži lotleschipe to scharp detž is of set'.
Note:Text written in pale ink at the bottom of the folio.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 268.

Item: 53
Locus:f. 169v
Title:Signs of Death (IMEV 4045)
Incipit:'Alle his frendes he shal beo lož'.
Explicit:'Ne shalt žou haue bote a clout'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 253.

Item: 54
Locus:f. 172r
Title:Against Temptation (IMEV 2646)
Incipit:'Of vr vife wittes a well witiynge'.
Explicit:'and of že laste ende a bisi biženkynge'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 268.

Item: 55
Locus:f. 172v
Title:The Sinner's Lament (IMEV 3311)
Incipit:'Strong it hus to flitte'.
Explicit:'Weylawey že stounde'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 268.

Item: 56
Locus:f. 181r
Title:Dialogue between the Saved and the Damned (IMEV 819)
Incipit:'for foule lustes i wistod'.
Explicit:'In blisse i were žys garlond'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 269.

Item: 57
Locus:f. 181r
Title:Job's Curse (IMEV 3278)
Incipit:'Žat ylke day be out of muinde Žat y was bron to monnes kuynde'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 268.

Item: 58
Locus:f. 183v
Title:Reward of the Meek (IMEV 850)
Incipit:'For žou were meke an laftuste pruyde Wite blisse in heuene i schal že scruyde'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 269.

Item: 59
Locus:f. 183v
Title:Matthew's Feast (IMEV 2133)
Incipit:'Matheuw hat mad a grete gestenyng te ihesu at home in his whonyyng'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 269.

Item: 60
Locus:f. 184r
Title:The Virtues Serve Us (IMEV 3867)
Incipit:'We preyen bileue god wille and pite'.
Explicit:'vus seruen clannesse rych & feyr beryng'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 269.

Item: 61
Locus:f. 184r
Title:Lord come to my feast (IMEV 1958)
Incipit:'Lord i bidde bože day and nyth'.
Explicit:'?if me mi wille at žis stonde'.
Bibliography:Furnivall 1866, p. 270.

Item: 62
Locus:f. 185r
Title:Three lines in a sermon (IMEV 33)
Incipit:'A fals behetyng A lyeres auansyng A bitynde fonding'.
Explicit:
Note:Given in full.
Bibliography:
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:175 x 120 mm
Collation: Unable to ascertain.
Layout:ff. 1r-151v writing space: 135 x 75 mm, single columns with c. 27 lines, frame and lines ruled in drypoint. ff. 152r-195v - variable but c. 145 x 95 mm, frame ruled in drypoint, c. 34 lines. ff. 196r-246v - 120 x 80 mm, single columns, c. 39 lines, frame ruled in drypoint.
Writing: Various scribes using a cursive script.
Decoration:Ff. 1r-151v - initials, paraphs, underlining in red. Ff. 152r-195v - no decoration. Ff. 196r-246v - paraphs and initials in red.
Binding: Not medieval. Size: 180 x 125 mm. Cover of black leather with two angels holding shield and banner with VIRTUTE ET FIDE stamp on front. Four raised bands across the spine.
Foliation:ff. 246
Additions:
Condition:Good
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:On ff. 179v-180r and on the last page are copies of Latin documents relating to Staffordshire.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
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