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1031. Harley MS 2389

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2389
Title:
Scope & Content:
A Commonplace Book including Medical, Culinary, Arboricultural and Fishing Recipes, Charms and Instructions; 16th cent. Middle English. Imperfect. A commonplace or household book, containing circa six-hundred medical recipes and charms, including culinary and fishing (ff. 73-73v) recipes and arb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1032. Harley MS 2390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2390
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Compendium; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Partly copy. Imperfect. The compendium contains texts relating to medicine and the regimen of health in Latin and Middle English, interspersed with collections of medical recipes (ff. 57v-58v, 59v-72, 75, 76-91v, 100v-102v, 107-108v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1033. Harley MS 2395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2395
Title:
Parish register of Steventon, 1559-1599
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A parish register of Steventon, recording baptisms, marriages and burials between 1559 and 1599. ff. 57r-58r: An account of ministers who preached in the church of Steventon from 1573 to 1578.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1559-1599
Extent:
1 volume

1034. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1035. Harley MS 2399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2399
Title:
Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:
The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1625
Extent:
1 item

1036. Harley MS 2400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2400
Title:
Psalms in English; The prayers of the Bible; A treatyse of confyrmacyon comenly called bysshoppynge of chyldren made by the godlye learned man John Calvyne now fyrste translated out of Laten in to englysh by Wyllyam Boys
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-30r: A selection of the psalms in English, imperfect at the beginning; ending: ‘The ende of the Psalter’. ff. 30r-35v: ‘The prayers of the Bible’, beginning: ‘Heare folowe certayne prayers of holy men and women taken out of the byble and fyrste for the synnes of the churche o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

1037. Harley MS 2408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2408
Title:
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland; John Bale, The pageant of popes contayninge the lyues of all the bishops of Rome; epitome of James VI and I, Basilikon Doron
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Latin chronicle from the Passion of Christ to the year 1559 [the reign of Queen Mary I]. f. 8r: A recipe in English, entitled: 'A medecyne for the knitting of a bone, strenghtning of a strayne, or stopping of a vayne within one'. ff. 8v-32r: John Bale (b. 1495, d. 1563),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 volume

1038. Harley MS 2411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2411
Title:
George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

1039. Harley MS 2412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2412
Title:
Thomas Legge, Richard Tertius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the eleven extant copies of Richardus Tertius, a play about King Richard III by the Cambridge playwright Thomas Legge (b. c. 1535, d. 1607). Contents: ff. 1r-72v: Thomas Legge, Richardus Tertius, here entitled: ‘Richardus Tertius – Tragedia in tres actiones div...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 volume

1040. Harley MS 2413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2413
Title:
Heraldic manual
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts concerning the rights and duties of royal heralds, how to hold events like tournaments and aristocratic funerals, and the precedence of nobles at state occasions. It was probably created for the use of a royal herald. Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Rules of precedence for dukes, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

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