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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1485
Extent:: 52 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book
Scope & Content:: This portion of the manuscript includes three texts sparsely annotated in the margins by Crophill: Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v); Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v); Cookery recipes (ff. 16v-28v). Decoration: Large initial (6 lines; f. 1r) in metallic red (mostly tarnished) on square go...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:: Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:: Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1484
Extent:: 8 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
Title:: John Crophill, Notebook
Scope & Content:: John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1456-1485
Extent:: 17 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1766
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:: John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, an English translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait, with English marginal notes in red, in the same hand as the text. Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Table of Contents t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1450-c 1460
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1770
Title:: A trilingual Psalter
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two parts that were produced at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire. The first part (ff. 3r-157v), written in the first half of the 14th century, contains the Psalms, canticles and hymns in Latin prose with parallel Anglo-Norman translations. The second part (ff. 158r-241r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253
Title:: Henri d'Acre, Miscellany of secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics'), including King Horn and the Follies of Fashion, and Psalms listed for recitation at certain times (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript divides in two parts. Part I (ff. 1r-48v) includes a collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French. Part II (ff. 49r-140v and 142r-142v, except for folio 52v) was written in c. 1330-1340 by the so-called 'Harley scribe' and contains a miscellany of texts including secu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v
Title:: Miscellany of (the 'Harley Lyrics')
Scope & Content:: Miscellany of texts including secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics') in English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. This part of the manuscript (except for folio 52v) was written by the so-called 'Harley scribe', active in or near Ludlow (Southern Shropshire) from 1314 to c. 1349...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1340
Extent:: 95 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2278
Title:: John Lydgate, Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund
Scope & Content:: The presentation copy of John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. Commissioned by Abbot William Curetys for presentation to King Henry VI upon or shortly after his visit to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds between Christmas 1433 and Easter 1434. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1434-1439
Extent:: 1 volume

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