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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 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

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.

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

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.

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