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411. Harley MS 2374

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2374
Title:
A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

412. Harley MS 2375

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2375
Title:
Scope & Content:
Compilation of Medical and Astrological Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The MS. is a compilation of medical and astrological texts and recipes; its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Owned by John Batteley (1647-1708), clergyman and antiquary. Boug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

413. Harley MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2376
Title:
William Langland, Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-124r: William Langland, Piers Plowman (the 'C' (N) text). Decoration: Numerous large initials in red ink with purple penwork decoration, with oak leaves in red ink decorating the rubric (f. 1r). Rubric on a scroll drawn in red ink (f. 51r). Parts of the text framed in red in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

414. Harley MS 2377

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2377
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Prick of Conscience (East Midland recension), misbound; the original order is ff. 1-33, 36-106, 34-35. Decoration: Large and small initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

415. Harley MS 2378

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378
Title:
Miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes. It was probably assembled by Nicholas Spalding, its 15th-century owner (his ex-libris on f. 135v and his name on ff. 5r and 61v). The two larger collections of medical recipes in the book (ff. 17r-61v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1722
Extent:
1 volume

416. Harley MS 2379

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2379
Title:
Tracts on vices and virtues; Speculum Christiani; Gospel harmony; De Spiritu Guidonis; Speculum sacerdotum; William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis; The Gret Sentence; theological verses and notes; Decretum abbreviatum; Pseudo-Bonaventura, Dieta Salutis; Tabulae Dieta Salutis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A collection of Latin tracts on vices, virtues and catechesis, entitled ‘vinea domini de cibu anime’; featuring excerpts from the Cibus Anime. ff. 57r-70v: Speculum Christiani, featuring Middle English verse on f. 62v (‘Whose wyll have helle / he must do as we hym telle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

417. Harley MS 2380

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2380
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and charms, with four religious songs in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Table of contents, beginning: 'Pro capite Dolor capitis [later addition] / For wert and vanite in þe hed', followed by additional entries by a 17th-century hand. ff. 6r-61v, 63v-64v. Collection of over 250 medical recipes in Middle English, inconsistently numbered (ff. 6-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

418. Harley MS 2381

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:
Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

419. Harley MS 2382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2382
Title:
Middle English verse collection including Lydgate's Life of Our Lady and Chaucer's Prioress' Tale and Second Nun's Tale
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2574) ff.75r-86r: The Assumption of Our Lady(New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2165) ff. 86v-87r: Prayer to the Virgin from the Speculum Christiani (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2119...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

420. Harley MS 2383

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2383
Title:
English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Speculum Sacerdotis (Speculum Edwardi), imperfect at the beginning; ending ‘Explicit speculum Edwardi quod Simon Smyht [sic] et inde testimonium peribet [sic] dominus iohannes mydwyntyr’. ff. 15v-24v: Liber Bonitatis, beginning ‘Sacerdos dicit Domine labia Deus in adiuto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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