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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128
Title:: Le Manuel des pechiez
Scope & Content:: ff. 93r–127v: William of Waddington, Le Manuel des pechiez (after f. 120v, 1305 lines are missing). Includes an inserted sermon in 122 stanzas (f. 123v), ‘Deu le omnipotent’ (Dean 199, nos. 635, 599). f. 127v: Names of knights of the Round Table, from Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, added in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v
Title:: Directions for braiding
Scope & Content:: Directions for braiding; 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. 2947.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 137r-154v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes. The text continuation ofthe text on ff. 121r- 135v. Title (f. 137) 'For þe gout þat comyth sondenly', incipit: 'Take / þe leuys of sauge and of anys', explicit (f. 154v): 'late hym lye stille on þe hol syde', including a charm (ff. 143v-144r) agai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 18 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 63r-77v
Title:: ?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum (fragment)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 221, and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 15 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 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 2378, ff 121r-135v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Collection of medical recipes compiled by Nicholas Spalding; the continuation of this text is included in ff. 137r-154v (circa 167 recipes, two less than the 169 quoted in the table of contents); Imperfect. The collection was popular and can be found in many manuscripts: see Robbins 1970; Hargrea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 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 2274, ff 35r-46v
Title:: Now late me thought I would begin
Scope & Content:: Now late me thought I would begin (NIMEV 2347; DIMEV 3777). A lament of the Virgin Mary, in 72 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with the refrain, ‘Who can not wepe come lerne at me’. Other witnesses: - Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 423, ff. 192v-205r (includes five stanzas not in the pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 12 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1500
Extent:: 93 folios.

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