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1. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v

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.

5. Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v

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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