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1. Harley MS 237

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 237
Title:
Theological miscellany, including Speculum Christiani
Scope & Content:
f. 1*r: Added table of contents, 17th-century. ff. 1r–2v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 3r–73v: Speculum Christiani. ff. 73v–75v: De horis canonicis, a note on how the canonical hours are to be said, beginning, ‘Hore canonice propter laudem humanum …’ Other copies in Royal MS 8 C I and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 2309

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2309
Title:
Wycliffite Gospels in the later version
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107v: Wycliffite Gospels in the later version, imperfect, lacking Matthew 1.20-8.26 and John 20.28 to the end. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A note: 'Agrees with no. 272. Mark 1 differs in Royal Lib. 1. C. VIII'; probably written around the time of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320
Title:
Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2320, f 71r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, f 71r
Title:
Medical recipe
Scope & Content:
Medical recipe, incipit: 'Take fetherwoy mylfoyle, mogewort / Rodeworte scabeiyse and merche / off eche off these'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 folio, followed by two folios.

5. Harley MS 2320, f 73r

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.

6. Harley MS 2320, ff 5r-30v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 5r-30v
Title:
Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma
Scope & Content:
Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma; 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), nos. 636.00 and 1594.00.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
26 folios.

7. Harley MS 2320, ff 31r-52r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 31r-52r
Title:
A lunar prognostication in verse
Scope & Content:
A lunar prognostication in verse; edited from the present manuscript in Means 1993, pp. 112-147; 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), nos. 2119.00 and 6735.00, and in New...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
22 folios.

8. Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v

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.

9. Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r
Title:
Medical recipes for mothers
Scope & Content:
Two medical recipes for mothers (f. 74r). Title 'A medecyn for the moder', incipit: 'Take grene ferne that growing / in the feylde'; title 'Anodyr for the same', incipit: 'Take the levys of / an elme'. A 17th-century hand produced another copy of the recipes on the facing page (f. 73v). Also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century-17th century
Extent:
2 folios.

10. Harley MS 2321

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2321
Title:
Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); Sermon on the Syon Pardon; Tract on the Pardon of Assisi; Menardus Monchus, Generalis et compendiosa librorum bibliae notitia; Martin of Troppau, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum; Mirabilia urbis Romae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (excerpts); collection of Latin tracts; John de Foxton, Liber Cosmographiae (excerpts); Latin poems; Speculum Monachorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Francis of Mayrone, De Indulgentiis (Sermones de sanctis et varii); ending ‘explicit sermo Francisci de Maronis de indulgenciis’. ff. 17r-62r: A Middle English sermon on the Syon Pardon. ff. 62v-63v: A Middle English tract on the Pardon of Assisi. ff. 65r-88v: ‘Menard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume