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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 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 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/1
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3810/2
Title:: A composite Miscellany including a Romance in Verse, Moral and Devotional Poems, and Medical Texts and Recipes
Scope & Content:: See Harley MS 3810 for full description.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 16v-28v
Title:: Cookery recipes
Scope & Content:: Cookery book (70 recipes); imperfect at the end. Title 'A tarte of fysche', incipit: 'Tak fyggys and reysingis and cynig', breaking off at 'ton wyt þe to3ere and onyouns mynced in þe'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v
Title:: Prophecies of Esdras
Scope & Content:: Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, f 112v
Title:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever
Scope & Content:: Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever: incipit: 'Pur sang estauncher In / nomine patris et cetera. Longes þe knyht him understod'; incipit: 'Charme pur dolour de playe / Nostre seigneur fust naufree'; incipit: 'Charme pur fievre. In nomine / patris et cetera. Bieau sire dieu / roy om...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 25v-26v
Title:: A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar
Scope & Content:: A treatise composed at Oxford relating to the calendar, 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. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 7055.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v
Title:: 'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:: 'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

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