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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3383
Title:: Collection of medical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Middle English treatise on urine, beginning imperfectly: 'But yf the malyncole and the fleumatyk make þe suche than hy buthe yn a[…] oþer in a fever tercian. Nowe speke we of twey rede urynys with a whyte resydeus scheweth a man bue en a fever'; ending: 'and lete hyn use ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3388
Title:
Scope & Content:: Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent., 1st half. Latin and Middle English. Copy. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - a) Practica de omnibus morbis (ff. 1-4v); - b) Rogerius de Parma, Chirurgia (ff. 5-19): see Thorndike-Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3407
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collection of Medical Texts and Recipes; late 12th cent. - 15th cent. Latin, Middle English and French. Copies. Many codicological units imperfect. A composite and miscellaneous volume including a proto-ensemble of the so-called Trotula texts (art. 1, ff. 1-19), and excerpts from Kyrannides...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1499
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3432
Title:: The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3486
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3490
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1444
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3528
Title:: A miscellany of alchemical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: An untitled collection of alchemical tracts in Latin, attributed by a later hand to Roger Bacon, Arnaldus de Villa Nova (Flos florum), Thomas Aquinas (‘lapis’), and Aristotle (Secretum secretorum); the text on f. 4r is partially in Middle English prose but has been crosse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3542
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collection of Alchemical and Medical Treatises and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect in parts. A composite and miscellaneous volume, its first part (ff. 1-94v; items 1-19) relates mainly to alchemy and includes: - a) Mirror of lights (ff. 1-14, imperfect; item ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3655
Title:: Registrum Brevium from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 8r-199v: Registrum Brevium for the reign of King Richard II, beginning with a table of contents (ff. 8r-9v), entitled: 'Calendar brevium realium'. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Memorandum of Robert de la Mare, Lord of Llangennith in the Gower, Swansea, Sout...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3657
Title:: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-221v: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; with a table of contents on ff. 1r-2r; featuring some 15th-century marginal annotations in Latin. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 222r-222v: Notes on canon law [including the subjects of cemeteries and burials], beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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