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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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7551/1
Title:: Biblical commentaries; Gospel of Luke (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Biblical commentaries and a partial copy of the Gospel of Luke. Originally bound with Harley MS 7551/2. ff. 1r-18r: Notes on the Song of Songs, Latin, 14th century. ff. 19r-32r: Notes on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Old English. 17th century. ff. 33r-36r: Gospel of Luke (imperfect)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7567
Title:: Collection of fragments, copies and originals of historical and religious texts, including the Old English edicts of Æthelberht; Old English laws of Æthelred; Decretum Gratiani; Cronica de Anglia; William of St Alban, Passio Sancti Albani
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of fragments, copies and originals of medieval and early modern texts that were produced separately and may have been kept together as a loose collection in the Harleian Library. The manuscript contains at least 38 separate sections ranging from the late 12th c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1734
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7653
Title:: The Harley Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a decorated prayerbook with an Old English gloss. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 2965 (the Book of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to first quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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