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1. 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.

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 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Harley MS 6258 B, ff 51v-66v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 51v-66v
Title:
Peri Didaxeon
Scope & Content:
This is the only known copy of the translation into Old English of a Latin collection of recipes mainly based on Petrocellus' Practica and Gariopontus material which were probably compiled not earlier than in 1035. The text is imperfect at the end. Rubric (f. 51v) 'Incipit liber qui dicitur / pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
16 folios.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.