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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2370
Title:: Ars moriendi; Chronicle of England from the Creation to the year 1427
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Ars moriendi, beginning: ‘Cum de praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus’; an added title inscription on f. 1r, written in a 16th-century hand, spuriously attributes the work to ‘Albertus Castellanus’. This may refer to Albertus de Castello, a Dominican friar, who edite...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2372
Title:: A Mirror for Recluses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of A Mirror for Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum inclusorum, an early 15th-century rule or guide for male anchorites. A complete copy of the text (the only other in existence) survives in a manuscript sold at Christie's, London, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2374
Title:: A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2375
Title:
Scope & Content:: Compilation of Medical and Astrological Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The MS. is a compilation of medical and astrological texts and recipes; its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Owned by John Batteley (1647-1708), clergyman and antiquary. Boug...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, f 4v
Title:: Records of births in the Goodrich family
Scope & Content:: Records of births in the Goodrich family of Bradfield St. Clare, co. Suffolk, 1579-1608.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1579-1608
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, f 6v
Title:: Four medical recipes 'For þe ston'
Scope & Content:: Four medical recipes entitled 'For þe ston', incipit: 'Take bryssyd comyn and camamylle mugwyd and malowes stamp togedyr / and sethe'. Partly listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 20...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 1r-3r
Title:: Index of words and list of contents
Scope & Content:: Index of words and list of contents added by the owner of the manuscript John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century-before 1722
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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