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11. Harley MS 3271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271
Title:
Collection of grammatical and computistical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous collection including: Grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination (ff. 1r-6r); The Tribal Hidage (f. 6v); Aelfric, Grammar (ff. 7r-90r); Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus (ff. 90r-92v); Grammatical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
129 folios.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Harley MS 3271, ff 128v-129r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 128v-129r
Title:
De initio creaturae.
Scope & Content:
Title: 'De initio creature', incipit: 'Her maeg findan se ðe sécan wile. hu micel þaes gerageteles is..' The last section of the text gives the date 1032: ‘ðonne is nu fram frymþe ealle aúrnen. Syx þusend wintra. 7 an hund wintra. 7 etwa 7 þrytyg wintra. To ðaem eastrun. þe bið .IIII. non. Apr....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1032
Extent:
2 folios

18. Harley MS 6258 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, translations and recipes. Contents as follows: 1. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium (ff. 1r-44r); 2. Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes and remedies in Old English and Latin (ff. 44v-51r); 3. Peri didaxeon (ff. 51v-66v)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

19. Harley MS 6258 B, ff 1r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 1r-44v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
Scope & Content:
The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
44 folios

20. Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus. The text consists of the Old English translations of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. 1. ff. 44v-45v: De taxone liber (c. 8 recipes). Prologue 'Þe Egypta king ['rexe / king/ rex' added in the margin] þe idpartus wæs hatan / Octaviano þ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
8 folios.