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1. Harley Ch 43 C 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 43 C 4
Title:
Will of Æthelflæd; Will of Ælfflæd
Scope & Content:
Will of Æthelflæd, including a bequest of land at Lambourn, Cholsey and Reading, Berkshire, to the king; at Damerham, Hampshire, to Glastonbury; at Hamme to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Woodham, Essex, to Ealdorman Brihtnoth and her sister for life, with reversion to St Mary’s, Barking; at Hadh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

2. Harley MS 55

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

3. Harley MS 55, f 4v

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.

4. Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r

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.

5. Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v

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.

6. Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v

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.

7. Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v
Title:
Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper, Pseudo-Prosper, or Paulinus, Poema coniugis ad uxorem [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no.531]; Isidore, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203]
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a group of patristic texts which have been glossed in both Latin and Old English. Most of the glosses seem to be contemporary, with a few eleventh-century glosses (Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 304). The style of the initials suggest that the manuscript was written at Christ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century
Extent:

53 parchment folios, part of a parchment codex

8. Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
Title:
Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
Scope & Content:
This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:
27 folios, part of a parchment codex

9. Harley MS 585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585
Title:
Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:
Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. 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.