Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English, Middle - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2445
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 227 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v
Title:: Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms
Scope & Content:: Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 13r-64v
Title:: Herbal
Scope & Content:: Herbal, arranged alphabetically; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: 'Absinthium est calidum et siccum in tertio gradu', explicit: 'Zinziber caninum … kylle'. For table of contents see ff. 10r-11v. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 51 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 72v-124v
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, Medical commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Thomas Fayreford, Medical commonplace book; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The compendium includes material from Roger de Baron's Practica (Rogerina Magna), such as de Baron's opening lines at the beginning. Rubric 'Ffayreforde [in gold] De capite', incipit: 'Sicut ab antiquis habemus auctoribus ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 53 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 125r-151r
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, Surgical commonplace book
Scope & Content:: Thomas Fayreford, Surgical commonplace book; Fayreford's autograph. Rubric 'Incipit Cirurgia secundum Ffayreforde', incipit: 'Medicine for to stanche blod. Ferst have þe name of þe man'. The text includes charms, listed in Olsan 2003 p. 366, and around 37 recipes in Middle English, listed in L. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 167r-172v
Title:: Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium (see ff. 72v-124v); Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: with figure of division (f. 167r) 'Urina fit multa'. The notes include: (a) three excerpts from the Doom of Urine in Middle English, incipit respectively (f. 168v) 'Urine of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 173r-174r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 40 recipes). Imperfect. Incipit: 'Wehose hauet heuedache oþer torment in hys heued me/diane per fore. Make hym ley3e of verveyne aut of be/toyne oþer of filles oþer of wermod and þere with wasch'. Followed (f. 174v) by a recipe in Latin, incipit: 'Pro apostema'. Listed in L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

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