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1. Harley MS 2257

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Harley MS 2257
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 6208...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2270

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Harley MS 2270
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2274

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Harley MS 2274
Title:
A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 2347

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Harley MS 2347
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous Collection of Medical texts and Recipes; late 15th cent., 13th cent. Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English. Partly imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Texts include: - A) Collection of medical and surgical recipes in Latin, Anglo-Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Harley MS 2399

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Harley MS 2399
Title:
Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:
The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1625
Extent:
1 item

6. Harley MS 3371

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Harley MS 3371
Title:
Collection of medical texts and recipes, including works by John of Arderne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical texts and recipes, including many works by the English practitioner John of Arderne (b. 1307, d. c. 1378). This collection has been identified as the exemplar used by the author of the Middle English translation of Arderne's works and other text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3383

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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

8. Harley MS 3388

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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

9. Harley MS 3407

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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

10. Harley MS 3542

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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