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331. Harley MS 3388

Reference (shelfmark):
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

332. Harley MS 3407

Reference (shelfmark):
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

333. Harley MS 3432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3432
Title:
The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

334. Harley MS 3486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3486
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

335. Harley MS 3490

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3490
Title:
Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1444
Extent:
1 volume

336. Harley MS 3528

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3528
Title:
A miscellany of alchemical works
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: An untitled collection of alchemical tracts in Latin, attributed by a later hand to Roger Bacon, Arnaldus de Villa Nova (Flos florum), Thomas Aquinas (‘lapis’), and Aristotle (Secretum secretorum); the text on f. 4r is partially in Middle English prose but has been crosse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

337. Harley MS 3542

Reference (shelfmark):
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

338. Harley MS 3655

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3655
Title:
Registrum Brevium from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 8r-199v: Registrum Brevium for the reign of King Richard II, beginning with a table of contents (ff. 8r-9v), entitled: 'Calendar brevium realium'. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Memorandum of Robert de la Mare, Lord of Llangennith in the Gower, Swansea, Sout...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

339. Harley MS 3657

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3657
Title:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-221v: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; with a table of contents on ff. 1r-2r; featuring some 15th-century marginal annotations in Latin. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 222r-222v: Notes on canon law [including the subjects of cemeteries and burials], beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

340. Harley MS 3688

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3688
Title:
Cartulary of Missenden Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*v–2*r: Added sheet with a table of estimated conversions of weights and measures, in English (early 15th century). ff. 1r–15v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 16r–186v: General cartulary, compiled by Robert de Welwes and completed 20 Feb 1330 or 1331; arranged in sections, mainly top...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1330-1331
Extent:

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