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1011. Harley MS 2319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2319
Title:
Mrs. Babylon's Looking-glass: or, a Brief Description of the Doings in Satan's Synagogue, otherwise called the Church of England, who is mounted upon the Beasts, and agoing with Speed in the Wide Way of Destruction
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was recorded missing in 1824. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'A thin Book in 8vo. seeming to have been copied, incorrectly enough, by some Lawyers Clerk, toward the end of King Charles the seconds Reign. It is entituled, "Mrs. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1012. Harley MS 2320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320
Title:
Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1013. Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r
Title:
Medical recipes for mothers
Scope & Content:
Two medical recipes for mothers (f. 74r). Title 'A medecyn for the moder', incipit: 'Take grene ferne that growing / in the feylde'; title 'Anodyr for the same', incipit: 'Take the levys of / an elme'. A 17th-century hand produced another copy of the recipes on the facing page (f. 73v). Also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century-17th century
Extent:
2 folios.

1014. Harley MS 2326

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2326
Title:
Tristram Tirwhyt's council on military leadership and rules of war for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: A dedicatory letter by Tristram Tirwhyt to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, beginning: ‘To the right honourable and his speciall good Lorde, Robert Erle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, of the moste noble orders of the Garter, and St Michael knight, one of the Quenes maiest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1577
Extent:
1 volume

1015. Harley MS 2327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2327
Title:
Manual of religious instruction for an English Catholic family
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: 'The maner how to make our Confession which is accustomed to bee don everie eight daye'; with detailed instructions on how to examine one’s conscience according to deadly and capital sins. ff. 25v-36r: 'Of the manner of the preparing of anyone unto the receving the most h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1576
Extent:
1 volume

1016. Harley MS 2335

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2335
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Pore Caitif (a popular 14th-century compilation of 14 treatises intended for the religious instruction of the laity). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: A list of payments: 'Receved of Robert [?] Harman - iis 4d / Due to me from Frances - 3s ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1017. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1018. Harley MS 2342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2342
Title:
Prayer book ('Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book')
Scope & Content:
Prayer book, known as 'Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book'. The manuscript contains prayers extracted from Richard Taverner's translation from the Latin of Wolfgang Capito's Precationes Christianae ad imitationem psalmorum compositae, printed as An epitome of the Psalmes, or briefe meditacons upon th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1539-1554
Extent:

1 volume

1019. Harley MS 2347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2347
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous Collection of Medical texts and Recipes; late 15th cent., 13th cent. Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English. Partly imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Texts include: - A) Collection of medical and surgical recipes in Latin, Anglo-Nor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

1020. Harley MS 2369

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2369
Title:
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Astrological, Alchemical, and Medical texts; late 15th cent. Latin. Copies. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. All the medical texts are itemised in the description, but the non-medical texts are described only summarily. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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