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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1710
Title:: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-166v: A Lectionary, in the earlier Wycliffite version. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 166r: 'Omnibus omnia non mea / Sompnia dicere possum'; added in the (?) 15th century. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in purple and red, e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390 - c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1724
Title:: Book of accounts of charges of the work at Wark on Tweed Castle for the period 1542-1543
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-166r: Book of accounts of charges of the work at Wark on Tweed Castle for the period 1542-1543.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1542-1543
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1730
Title:: Wycliffite sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-105v: Wycliffite sermons in Middle English, imperfect. Set 5 (on the Sunday epistles) of the Wycliffite sermons, beginning with the First Sunday in Advent and ending incompletely in the sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The manuscript contains a few additions: Margi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1731
Title:: Prick of Conscience; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-132v: Prick of Conscience. ff. 134r-148v: Speculum Gy de Warewyke (also entitled Speculum Mundi and Speculum utile istius mundi). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: two inscriptions on pieces of parchment: ‘Ryght honorable and most worthy’, added in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1485
Extent:: 52 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book
Scope & Content:: This portion of the manuscript includes three texts sparsely annotated in the margins by Crophill: Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v); Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v); Cookery recipes (ff. 16v-28v). Decoration: Large initial (6 lines; f. 1r) in metallic red (mostly tarnished) on square go...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 1r-13v
Title:: Thyrtty Days of the Mone
Scope & Content:: Thyrtty Days of the Mone, a thirty-day lunary (i.e. prognostication) in verse, incipit: 'God þat alle þis world hays wrout3', explicit: 'yef þou wylt3 bledum weyn blod'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v
Title:: Prophecies of Esdras
Scope & Content:: Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 16v-28v
Title:: Cookery recipes
Scope & Content:: Cookery book (70 recipes); imperfect at the end. Title 'A tarte of fysche', incipit: 'Tak fyggys and reysingis and cynig', breaking off at 'ton wyt þe to3ere and onyouns mynced in þe'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

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