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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 11r-11v
Title:: Text relating to apostemes
Scope & Content:: Text relating to apostemes, or abscesses. Rubric 'Ffor to knowe of alle manere soris wythin and / wythowte of what complexion þerbe knowe/yis rewle', incipit: 'If yow se a sore or aposteme / þat is wythowte and wat party þat it be / (f. 11v) on þe body', explicit: 'for all maner surgerye of apost...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 17r-61v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes (c. 250 recipes), imperfect. This collection was apparently put together by Nicholas Spaldyng or Spalding. Title 'For to make pelots of antioche', incipit: 'Take croppes of the rede / coole of the rede netle tansey hemp and of sparge', expl. 'ley it on þe pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 35 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 58r-62v
Title:: Collection of astrological and prognostication texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of astrological and prognostication texts, with calendars and tables, mostly in Middle English.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 5 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 61v-62v
Title:: Medical recipes (6 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (6 recipes). Rubric (f. 61v) 'Gargaris / ius pro pro/gacione cap/itis dencium / et gingiuarum', incipit: 'Recipe senapii sangie pireter de spayn et sucus istarum herbarum', explicit: 'fratris ricardi Barton'; rubric (f. 61v) 'Pro febribus', incipit: 'Tak of wormewode scabiose fumi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 47r-50v
Title:: Doom of Urine compendium (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Two short treatises (ff. 47r-48v, 48v-50v) relating to urine and uroscopy (eVK2 nos 2878.00 and 7764.00), possibly extracts from Henry Daniel, Dome of Uryns (Liber uricrisarium) (see Keiser, Works of Science (1998), p. 3661). The first treatise begins: 'In the begynnyng þu shalt take hede to 4 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Four leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 136r-136v
Title:: Medical recipes (8 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (8 recipes). Rubric 'For þe rede flixe', incipit: 'Take a penny wyhte of lapis caluminaris'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 4767.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, f 57v
Title:: Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem
Scope & Content:: Iohannes de Pulchro Rivo, Compilatio elucidans compotum manualem (Walther, Initia Carminum (1959), no. 6525; Thorndike and Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits (1963), column 561). Often attributed to John of Garland. Rubric: 'Hic incipit librum computo manulis'. Begins: 'Filius esto dei celum bonus ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, f 26v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (six recipes). Title underlined in red 'For passey or þe failyng yvyl', incipit: 'Ys gode to drynk ys own / water ix daes et in quantity'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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 2320, f 73r
Title:: Prognostication by dominical letter
Scope & Content:: Prognostication by dominical letter; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 589.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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