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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/1
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/2
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3812
Title:: Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:: A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1463
Extent:: 5 folded folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A
Title:: Astronomical and astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1230-1399
Extent:: 140 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v
Title:: Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Scope & Content:: Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3818
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Table of contents. ff. 2v-16v: Chapter lists of English statutes. ff. 17r-25r: Magna Carta. ff. 25r-29r: Carta de Foresta. ff. 29v-34r: Statutum de Merton. ff. 34r-45v: Statutum de Marleberge. ff. 45v-68v: Statutum Westmonasterii Primum. ff. 68v-74r: Statutum G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3823
Title:: Notes on the Old Testament; Summa de septem viciis capitalibus; a work on the Seven Deadly Sins
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Latin notes on the Old Testament, beginning: 'Frater ambrosius etcaetera'. ff. 50r-407v: Summa de septem viciis capitalibus, beginning: 'Quoniam ut ait sapiens, peccantem uirum inuoluet laqueus'; Latin sermons with verses in early medieval English on ff. 129r, 182v, 183r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3831
Title:: Collection of sayings, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1r-20r: A collection of sayings, anti-clerical, anti-drunkenness invectives, amulets, magical spells, remedies and recipes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3840
Title:
Scope & Content:: Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. The manuscript comprises a large herbal in Latin (ff. 1-138; item 1) and a Middle English herbal, known as Agnus castus (ff. 139-178v; item 2) with embedded recipes. The previous ownership, and the date an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3846
Title:: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotorum regis; Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Anglorum; Vita Sancti Oswaldi; poem on St Oswald; Henry of Sawtry, Tractatus de purgatorio Sancti Patricii; a genealogy of kings, excerpts from chronicles and a political poem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-147 and ff. 149-196) that were written, respectively, in the first and second half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 2r-70r: Eadmer of Canterbury, Vita et conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis. ff. 71r-85r: Aelred of Rievaulx, Vita Davidis Scotoru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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