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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 7r-11r
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum in the Middle English translation, also known as Astrologia Ypocratis, an astrological text relating to medicine and prognostication. Prologue title 'Thys his þe boke of ypocras', incipit: 'In þis book he techyt / for to knowe be planete. seknesse. lyf. a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 11r-11v
Title:: Text relating to apostemes
Scope & Content:: Text relating to apostemes, or abscesses. Rubric 'Ffor to knowe of alle manere soris wythin and / wythowte of what complexion þerbe knowe/yis rewle', incipit: 'If yow se a sore or aposteme / þat is wythowte and wat party þat it be / (f. 11v) on þe body', explicit: 'for all maner surgerye of apost...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 14v-16v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 9 recipes). Two recipes (f. 14v), rubric 'Ffor þe gowte', incipit: 'Take ij galons of vryne þt is i monthe held and / sethe it and claryfy it' (two recipes); eight recipes (ff. 14v-15v) one of which for aqua vita, rubric 'Pro collyca passione', incipit: 'Take halfe 1 pownd co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 17r-61v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes (c. 250 recipes), imperfect. This collection was apparently put together by Nicholas Spaldyng or Spalding. Title 'For to make pelots of antioche', incipit: 'Take croppes of the rede / coole of the rede netle tansey hemp and of sparge', expl. 'ley it on þe pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 35 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 61v-62v
Title:: Medical recipes (6 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (6 recipes). Rubric (f. 61v) 'Gargaris / ius pro pro/gacione cap/itis dencium / et gingiuarum', incipit: 'Recipe senapii sangie pireter de spayn et sucus istarum herbarum', explicit: 'fratris ricardi Barton'; rubric (f. 61v) 'Pro febribus', incipit: 'Tak of wormewode scabiose fumi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 118v-120v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 15 recipes). Incipit: 'Take v graynes of catarpuse and þe quantite of hony / as a bene and put þerto ij sponful of lewke water'. Recipes copied by a number of hands. One recipe on f. 120v published in G. Henslow 1899. Listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 121r-135v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Collection of medical recipes compiled by Nicholas Spalding; the continuation of this text is included in ff. 137r-154v (circa 167 recipes, two less than the 169 quoted in the table of contents); Imperfect. The collection was popular and can be found in many manuscripts: see Robbins 1970; Hargrea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 136r-136v
Title:: Medical recipes (8 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (8 recipes). Rubric 'For þe rede flixe', incipit: 'Take a penny wyhte of lapis caluminaris'. Listed in L. 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, 2006), no. 4767.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 137r-154v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes. The text continuation ofthe text on ff. 121r- 135v. Title (f. 137) 'For þe gout þat comyth sondenly', incipit: 'Take / þe leuys of sauge and of anys', explicit (f. 154v): 'late hym lye stille on þe hol syde', including a charm (ff. 143v-144r) agai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 18 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 155r-168v
Title:: Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes). Rubric 'To clarifie suger', incipit: 'Take a quarte of fayre water and put it in a panne / and þerto þe whyte of iij egges', explicit 'as in mystes / and glommyng weders / Explicit'. Two recipes (ff. 157r-158r) published in Henslow 1899, pp. 120-22...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1395
Extent:: 14 folios.

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