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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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v
Title:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719
Title:: Collection of astronomical, calendrical, medical and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume including: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1v, 4v) referring to the present volume, and a table of contents relating to Gerardus Bituricensis' commentary on the Viaticum (ff. 2r-3r) from a different manuscript; 2. An astrological text (ff. 3v-4v); ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1540
Extent:: 283 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 155v-159r
Title:: Astrological diagrams
Scope & Content:: Astrological diagrams in colours including two volvelles (ff. 155v-156r) and a diagram showing moon phases (f. 157v). Bloodletting-zodiac man (ff. 158v-159r). The illustration combines the features of a bloodletting man with those of a zodiac man. Captions in Middle English written in alternati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 175v-177v
Title:: Pythagorean sphere with prognostication texts and diagrams
Scope & Content:: The Pythagorean sphere, a diagram of the sphere of life and death used in prognostications, preceded by the title 'Sphera Pictagore' (f. 175v), and followed by explanatory texts: a text in verse, 5 lines, incipit (f. 175v): 'Collige per numerum quicquid cupis esse probandum', explicit 'Quod ret...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3724
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, the bull Laudabiliter, and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of miscellaneous texts in Latin and Middle English, written in Ireland during the 13th century. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an account of the landscape, history and people of Ireland, written by the historian Ger...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3776
Title:: The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:: The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1345-1360s
Extent:: Parchment codex

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