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81. Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
101 folios.

82. Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

83. Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:
A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

84. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:
Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
63 folios.

85. Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
Title:
Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 863

86. Harley MS 3271, f 6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, f 6v
Title:
Tribal Hidage.
Scope & Content:
The Tribal Hidage, a list of thirty-five tribes and assessments of hides for territories south of the Humber. According to Featherstone (2001), it is the earliest and most complete of the seven surviving medieval manuscripts of the Tribal Hidage.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
1 folio.

87. Harley MS 3271, ff 90r-92v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 90r-92v
Title:
Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus.
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus including eight rubrics: 'De triginta argenteos', 'De arca Noe' (extracts from Interrogationes Sigewulfi), 'De diebus malis', 'De diebus fesstis', 'De pactis', 'De concurrentibus', 'De alleluia', 'De solae'; and passages on the number of months, da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
3 folios.

88. Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r
Title:
Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt).
Scope & Content:
Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt). The Latin text and its Old English translation are integrated in the same column (ff. 115v-118r) or the translation is included as an interlinear gloss (ff. 118v-120r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
6 folios.

89. Harley MS 3271, ff 124r-125r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 124r-125r
Title:
Be þam halgan gaste on englisc.
Scope & Content:
A text entitled 'Be þam halgan gaste on englisc', incipit: 'Isaias se witega awrát on his witegunge...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
2 folios.

90. Harley MS 3271, ff 125v-128v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 125v-128v
Title:
Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento.
Scope & Content:
Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento, excerpts: incipit 'Ic wolde secgan be þam ungesaeligum folce...' (ll. 1227-61), and 'Hieronimus se wurðfulla...' (ll. 1017-1153). Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
4 folios.

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