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391. Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (four recipes). The recipes relate to gout, stomach and eyes. Rubric: 'A goude medicine for þe goute', incipit: 'Take þe milk of a / cowe of on coloure and bene mele of ynde and seethe / hem'. Listed in Robins 1970.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

392. Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v
Title:
Prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:
Collection of prayers and devotional texts, beginning with the Lord's prayer, incipit: 'Fadir ours þat ast in hevenes.' Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
11 folios.

393. Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270, ff 86r-194v
Title:
Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a fifteenth-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
109 paper leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2270

394. Harley MS 2558, ff 13r-64v

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.

395. Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:
Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
50 folios.

396. Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
2 folios.

397. Harley MS 1010, ff 1r-23v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1010, ff 1r-23v
Title:
Treatise on urine
Scope & Content:
Treatise on urine in Middle English with chapter titles in Latin. A list of uroscopic symptoms possibly drawn from a number of sources. It appears to differ from the Middle English compilation by Henry Daniel (fl. 1379), a Dominican friar and horticulturist. Incipit: 'Urene is clensyng of blode a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
23 folios.

398. Harley MS 2558, ff 173r-174r

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.

399. Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r

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.

400. Harley MS 3719, ff 155v-159r

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.

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