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441. Harley MS 2253, ff 1r-48v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253, ff 1r-48v
Title:
Collection of hagiographical texts
Scope & Content:
Collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French including: 1. 'Vitas patrum' (formerly attributed to Henry d'Arci), incipit: 'En lonur de damne de le omnipotent' (ff. 1r-22v); 2. 'La passioun nostre seignour' (an extract from the versified biblical history of Hermann of Valenciennes)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
48 folios.

442. Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v
Title:
Miscellany of (the 'Harley Lyrics')
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of texts including secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics') in English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. This part of the manuscript (except for folio 52v) was written by the so-called 'Harley scribe', active in or near Ludlow (Southern Shropshire) from 1314 to c. 1349...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-c 1340
Extent:
95 folios.

443. Harley MS 2347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2347
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous Collection of Medical texts and Recipes; late 15th cent., 13th cent. Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English. Partly imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Texts include: - A) Collection of medical and surgical recipes in Latin, Anglo-Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

444. Harley MS 2445

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2445
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

445. Harley MS 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
227 folios.

446. Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v
Title:
Novele cirurgerie, excerpt
Scope & Content:
Novele cirurgerie, excerpt (365 lines); Imperfect. A collection of medical recipes in Anglo-Norman verse. Beginning at 'En eisil e chaut sure mis', breaking at 'E sur ceo la confectiun'. Text fully printed in Hunt 1987. See also Hieatt and Jones 1990.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
2 folios.

447. Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
15 folios.

448. Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (c. 30 recipes). Incipit: 'Pro dolore dentium vinum et peper / misse'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 1132e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

449. Harley MS 3601

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3601
Title:
Liber memorandorum ecclesie conuentualis de Bernewelle
Scope & Content:
ff. 2*r–7*v: Kalendar. f. 1r: List of days on which it is not permitted to work; list of episcopal and archepiscopal seats in England and Wales. ff. 1v–2v: Office in veneration of the Holy Trinity. f. 2v: Copies of charters in a fourteenth-century hand. ff. 3r–10r: List of contents. ff. 11r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1295
Extent:

Parchment codex

450. Harley MS 3660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3660
Title:
Cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey
Scope & Content:
A general cartulary of Canonsleigh Abbey, Devon (founded originally as a priory for Augustinian canonesses), arranged topographically in sections, containing copies of royal and occasional episcopal charters. It has been suggested that the book was originally compiled in 1323-24 (see London, Car...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1322-1337
Extent:

1 volume

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