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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 9
Title:: Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary (H-Y)
Scope & Content:: Second half of Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary. Largely in the hand of Simonds D’Ewes, including the title page. f. 1: Strip of paper pasted onto flyleaf: ‘This booke with another same volume and forme was lent me by my most assured loving friend Mr John Rushworth. Octob[e]r 25 1653. Ita t[e]stor Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55
Title:: Anglo-Saxon miscellany including medical remedies and Anglo-Saxon laws by Edgar and Cnut
Scope & Content:: The volume is made up of fragments from two different manuscripts. The first fragment (ff. 1r-4v; unit A) probably formed the end of the original manuscript, and includes: Bald, Leechbook, book 2, chapter 59 (ff. 1r-3r); Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975) (ff. 3v-4v); Oswald, archbishop of Yo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, f 4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Oswald, archbishop of York (972-992), a statement relating to alienated lands in Otley, Ripon and Sherburn-in-Elmet and of lands obtained for York by Archbishop Oscytel (d. 1071), Oswald's predecessor; with additions possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (1003-1016) and archbisho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1003-1023
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Bald's Leechbook (20 remedies), imperfect, incipit: 'Wið þære heal Fdeadan adle and hwanon seo cume seo adl cymð on þa swiðran healfe'; explicit: 'wæteres bollan / Fulne to gedrincanne'. The text corresponds to chapter 59 of book 2 of the 'Laecebok' or Leechbook, copied by Cild for Bald at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975), with the Latin title 'Lege Eadgari' added in the upper margin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Cnut (r. 1016-1035). Decoration: Large initials (2-3 lines; ff. 5, 7v, 13) in red, paragraph initials touched in red, rubric (f. 5r) in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 61
Title:: Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–124v: Cartulary of royal and other charters, based on an earlier landboc that was apparently arranged in chronological order, preserved here to some extent, e.g. with pre-conquest documents grouped, some in Old English (ff. 1r–22v), followed by a Middle English schedule of knight’s fees. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 66
Title:: Transcripts of the Historia Sancti Albani scripta tempore Henrici III; excerpts from a register of Westminster Abbey attributed to Sulcard; excerpts from a cartulary of Abingdon Abbey; charters of the kings of Mercia, from King Oshere to King Alfred the Great; legal documents from the reign of Henry I to James I
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early 17th-century collection of transcripts of historical and legal documents ranging from the 9th century to the 17th century. The legal documents are written largely in Latin, but some of the early documents also contain sections in Old English (ff. 61r-61v, 62r, 6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 107
Title:: Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect; ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions; f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’; f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis; two leaves from a gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]. ff. 22v-24v: ? Prosper or Paulinus of Nola, Poema coniugis ad uxorem; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 531]. ff. 25r-53r: Isidore of Sevill...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 975-1050
Extent:: 1 volume

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