Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 35r-50v
Title:: Astronomical tables with additional calendrical material
Scope & Content:: A text on reading astronomical tables, incipit: 'In as moche as it is dilectable be cuse of fortune...' (ff. 35r-35v) Astronomical tables (ff. 36v-48r) with additional calendrical material (ff. 49v-50v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 51r-61v
Title:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse'
Scope & Content:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse', incipit: 'Of the vicis of the mone and of hus ewyl'. Includes diagrams of astrological charts (ff. 58v-59v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 62r-87v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium, including: excerpts from Ptolemy and Albumazar in English, incipit: 'Every planett yt ys a bons', with an astrological chart (ff. 62r-63v), astrological charts (ff. 64r, 66r, 72r, 72v, 73v, 75r-78v, 79v, 80r-81v, 82v-83v, 86r, 87r) and notes, astrological tables (ff. 67r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 116r-132v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium including: prognostications (ff. 116r-117v), incipit: 'Luna prima omnibus rebus agendis and utilis'), a diagram of elements and humors (f. 118r), a table (f. 118v), several astrological prognostications beginning with a chart, incipit: 'I consyderyd in this quostion...' (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2271
Title:: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-7v: An alphabetical table for the ensuing tract. ff. 8r-91v: A collection of forms or precedents of instruments made by a Devonshire lawyer towards the end of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign; several of these were drawn up according to the usage and custom of the city of Exeter.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274
Title:: A collection of liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological and computus texts; a Middle English-Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany, containing liturgical, devotional, medical, astrological, and computus texts, Middle English verse and a Middle English-Latin dictionary.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, f 28v
Title:: Revelation of St Bridget and English verse
Scope & Content:: A short Latin text on the revelation of St Bridget (2nd half of the 15th century). Rubric: 'Libro sexto capitulo decimo. Revelacionum beate Brigitte'. Begins: 'Habetur que et quo tempore misse dicende sunt ad liberandum animam'. Ends: 'cum eis digna requie habeatur. Summa missarum xxiiii'. F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, f 50v
Title:: An oyntemente for the goute
Scope & Content:: A medical recipe in English, entitled: 'An oyntement for the goute which taketh the fundamente'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 51r-56v
Title:: Medical texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of Latin and Middle English medical texts (possibly imperfect). The collection comprises recipes, charms and short texts relating to the therapeutic use of herbs, 46 in Middle English and 10 in Latin, including one relating to rosemary on ff. 51v-52 (eVK2 nos 6246.00 and 5526; see...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 6 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 57r-57v
Title:: Astrological text (fragment)
Scope & Content:: A fragment of an astrological text. Begins: '[...]esydue of þe medyl mevyng [...] and þe medyll argumentis'. Ends: 'þe wyche is to be mayd lesse of þe medill mevyng off þe sunne et cetera. Finis quod Wyllelmus Geffrum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

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