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91. Harley MS 1887

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1887
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and treatments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto (margins)-1*verso (margins), 1r-1v: Recipes, including a tract on 'The virtue and degree of herbs' and a 'Restorative'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century. ff. 2r-10v, 14r-45v: Latin treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, containing recipes for electuari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1545
Extent:
1 volume

92. Harley MS 1964

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1964
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rennes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-6r: Unidentified devotional text in French about the teaching of five salutations to Christ, faded at the beginning. ff. 7r-18v: Calendar, including the following saints in red ink: Agnes, Juliane, Agatha, Ambrosius, Eutrope, Yvo (Tréguier, Brittany), Gervasus and Prothasus,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

93. Harley MS 2169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2169
Title:
Heraldic collection
Scope & Content:
This heraldic manuscript contains a collection of arms compiled in the time of Henry VI or Edward IV. The collection focuses on English arms, as is indicated by its opening pages which feature verses on and drawings of William of Normandy (f. 1r), King Henry V (f. 2r), and King Henry VI (f. 3r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

94. Harley MS 2259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2259
Title:
Richard Strangways, Tractatus nobilis de lege et exposicione armorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: An introduction and table of contents, beginning ‘Pensa, Successor, in tui cordis oraculo de primo Predecestore, qui hoc nobile ex pluribus libris aggregatum si dici possit non minus se ipso predilexit’. ff. 7v-10r: Lists of names of nobility that came with William the Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1455
Extent:
1 volume

95. 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

96. Harley MS 2436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2436
Title:
Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 14th-century collection of sermons for saints' feast days (ff. 17r-168v), with sermons added in the 15th century at the beginning (ff. 1r-14v). Contents: ff. 1r-14v: A collection of sermons; with a previously unrecorded Middle English verse translation of Latin tex...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

97. Harley MS 2745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2745
Title:
Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula; (Pseudo)-Ovid, poems; Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis; florilegia of Classical and French authors; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia; Ovid, Metamorphoses (florilegium); Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula; the second part, which should follow the first part on ff. 153r-160v. ff. 31v-46v: (Pseudo-)Ovid, Collection of poems (De nuce, De somno, De cuculo, De pulice, De anulo, De medicamine aurium, De philomena, De lupo, De mirabilibus mundi, De medicam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

98. Harley MS 2823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2823
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:
1 volume

99. Harley MS 2867

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2867
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: a prayer inscribed in pencil on a piece of paper pasted onto a front flyleaf, beginning 'Curage desperas peccatis territus ullis', perhaps 17th century. ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French, with added Arabic numerals, perhaps 17th century. ff. 14r-20v: Gospel readings. ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1420s
Extent:
1 volume

100. Harley MS 2868

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2868
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Suffrage to St Barbara, with the rubric: ‘Quicumque factum sancte barbare animam celebraverit et cotidie hanc memoracionem et oracionem martirii eiusdem subsequentem bene et devote dixerit multa tormenta corporis per eius intercessionem evadet et absque confessione et vera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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