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51. Harley MS 4660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4660
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’. f. 1v: A transcription of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, English, Old, and Germanic languages
Date Range:
c 1643-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 5040

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5040
Title:
English alchemical work based on Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50v: An acephalous alchemical work, imperfect at the beginning due to the loss of folios, following the structures of the twelve grados and the concluding Recapitulatio in Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum; attributed in a poem at the end to an author from Cirencester: 'H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. Harley MS 5915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5915
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was originally part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
8th century - 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

54. 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

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

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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

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

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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.

57. 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.

58. Harley MS 6523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6523
Title:
Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

59. Harley MS 6941, ff 179r-180v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6941, ff 179r-180v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Explanation of Old English words
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

2 folios

60. Harley MS 7513

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7513
Title:
Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to St Mary’s Abbey, Worcester
Scope & Content:
King Edgar grants to St Mary's Abbey, Worcester, privileges for land at Cropthorne, Overbury, Pendock, Worcestershire; Teddington, Gloucestershire; Mitton in Bredon, Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire; Northwick in Blockley, Evenlode, Daylesford, Dorn in Batsford, Icomb, Gloucestershire; Shipston-on-St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

1 leaf

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