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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 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.

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.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:: A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:: Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

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 863 ff 8-123v
Title:: Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 863

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.

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.

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.

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