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631. Harley MS 2371

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2371
Title:
John Mirk, Festial
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-141v: John Mirk, Festial (Group B version); beginning imperfectly towards the end of Advent and ending imperfectly with the opening of the Dedication of the Church; the sermon for the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury has been largely cut out (see ff. 73*-[73c]), and the remaini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

632. Harley MS 2372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2372
Title:
A Mirror for Recluses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of A Mirror for Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum inclusorum, an early 15th-century rule or guide for male anchorites. A complete copy of the text (the only other in existence) survives in a manuscript sold at Christie's, London, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

633. Harley MS 2373

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2373
Title:
The Cloud of Unknowing, The Book of Privy Counselling, and other works by the same author
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of seventeen extant medieval copies of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guide on contemplative prayer and meditation from the second half of the 14th century. It contains five other works by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing: The Epistle of Discretion of Stirrings, Treat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

634. 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

635. 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

636. 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

637. 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

638. 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

639. Harley MS 2378, f 6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, f 6v
Title:
Four medical recipes 'For þe ston'
Scope & Content:
Four medical recipes entitled 'For þe ston', incipit: 'Take bryssyd comyn and camamylle mugwyd and malowes stamp togedyr / and sethe'. Partly listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 20...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folios.

640. Harley MS 2378, ff 5r-6r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 5r-6r
Title:
Three medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Three medical recipes and recipes for dyes, pigments and clothworking. Title (f. 5r) 'A reseyte for blac threde Title (f. 5r) 'Metheglentyne', incipit: 'Take þe rote of fenel pesel wit þe rote tansey wit þe rote / elencampana'; title (f. 5v) 'Pro guta', incipit: 'Recipe manipulum 1. de herba ben...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

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