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1. Harley MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273
Title:
Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1349
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v
Title:
Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever
Scope & Content:
Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
1 folio.

3. Harley MS 937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 937
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. It was apparently made for the sons of a northern noble family. This is the only known surviving almanac of its kind written in Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1430-1431
Extent:
10 folios, folded into six parts.

4. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 941, f 26v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, f 26v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (six recipes). Title underlined in red 'For passey or þe failyng yvyl', incipit: 'Ys gode to drynk ys own / water ix daes et in quantity'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

6. Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v
Title:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

7. Harley MS 941, ff 24r-25r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 24r-25r
Title:
John Lydgate, Dietary
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Dietary; incipit: 'For helth of þe body cover frome cold þe hed / Ete no raw mete take gode hede þerito', explicit: 'to indifferent rycheft and dietari / Explicit concilium corporis et anime / Explicit dietarys particularis'. Edited in John Lydgate, Minor Poems, ed. by H. N. MacC...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

8. Harley MS 941, ff 25v-26v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 25v-26v
Title:
A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar
Scope & Content:
A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar, listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 7055.00.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

9. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:
1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
14 folios.