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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes; late 14th-15th cent. Middle English and Latin. The MS. is composite and comprises three MSS. of different origin divided into two volumes. Its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Tr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 2 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/1
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/2
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3812
Title:: Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:: A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1463
Extent:: 5 folded folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A
Title:: Astronomical and astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1230-1399
Extent:: 140 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v
Title:: Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Scope & Content:: Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3818
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Table of contents. ff. 2v-16v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 17r-25r: Magna Carta. ff. 25r-29r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 29v-34r: Statutum de Merton. ff. 34r-45v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 45v-68v: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum. ff. 68v-74r: Statutum G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3823
Title:: Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Latin notes on the Old Testament, beginning: 'Frater ambrosius etcaetera'. ff. 50r-407v: Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: 'Quoniam ut ait sapiens, peccantem uirum inuoluet laqueus'; Latin sermons with verses in early medieval English on ff. 129r, 182v, 183r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3831
Title:: Collection of sayings, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1r-20r: A collection of sayings, anti-clerical, anti-drunkenness invectives, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3840
Title:
Scope & Content:: Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. The manuscript comprises a large herbal in Latin (ff. 1-138; item 1) and a Middle English herbal, known as Agnus castus (ff. 139-178v; item 2) with embedded recipes. The previous ownership, and the date an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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