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141. Harley MS 1587

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1587
Title:
Collection of school texts compiled by William Ingram
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of school texts compiled by a student named William Ingram, in Canterbury around 1480. ff. 1r-45r: An alphabetical word-list in Latin and English, beginning: 'Nomina altilli[u]m et diuersarum rerum'. ff. 46v-50r: Vocabulary lists of nouns, adverbs and pre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1396-c 1480
Extent:

1 volume

142. Harley MS 1600

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1600
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical and surgical recipes and charms from the late 14th century or early 15th century with added recipes and charms that date to the late 15th and/or early 16th century. Two of the charms refer to the Earl of Hereford (f. 35r) and the Infirmary of Killyngworth (f. 35v). The re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

143. Harley MS 1602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1602
Title:
Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

144. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

145. Harley MS 1605/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/3
Title:
The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1390-early 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

146. Harley MS 1612

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1612
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Medical Treatises and Astrological Texts and Tables; early 15th cent. with 13th-cent. pastedowns. Middle English and Latin. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this miscellaneous and composite manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the medical texts are fully itemis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

147. Harley MS 1628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1628
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical Glossaries, Texts, and Recipes; 15th cent., 2nd half. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The volume, entitled 'Dispensatory', is a compilation of glossaries and texts on simple drugs put together by or for the use of an English apothecary possibly around 1483 (date on f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

148. Harley MS 1659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1659
Title:
Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis et virtutibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-394v: Willelmus Peraldus [William Perault (d. 1271)], Summa de vitiis et virtutibus. The manuscript features several later additions: ff. 1v-3r: Pope Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; added in the (?) 15th century. ff. 395r-97r: Theological notes in Latin, featuring a few ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

149. Harley MS 1666

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1666
Title:
The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-111v: The General Prologue (Later Version) to the Wycliffite Bible. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. iii recto: A note in pencil by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum: 'This MS is stated to have belonged to Matthew ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

150. Harley MS 1671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1671
Title:
The Weye of Paradys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85v: The Weye of Paradys; a Middle English translation of the Middle French Voie de Paradis; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: An English poem on St Erasmus, beginning 'Of Synt herassimus here may a man rede' [th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 14th century-1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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