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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language French, Old Level [41] Item

1. Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v
Title:
Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour, Robert Grosseteste, Rules, and other text including charms.
Scope & Content:
The second unit of the manuscript includes: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love) (ff. 70r-81r); Robert Grosseteste, Rules (ff. 81r-85r); Rules of Friendship or La Diffinission de Amurs (ff. 85r-85v); Charm against wounds (f. 85v) and Charm for bloodletting (f. 85v). Decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
15 folios.

2. Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v
Title:
Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle; Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:
The third unit of the manuscript includes: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (ff. 86r-102v), Sermon on penance from the Church Fathers, followed by added prayers (ff. 103r-110r); Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams (ff. 110v-112v); Charms for bloodletting, against wounds and fever (f. 11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
26 folios.

3. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:
Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
63 folios.

4. Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

5. Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v
Title:
Marie de France, Fables
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
28 folios.

6. Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r
Title:
Marie de France, Lais
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Lais; incipit: 'Ki deus ad dune en science?', explicit: 'Chahum nel deust oblier'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
43 folios.

7. Harley MS 2378, ff 110v-118v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378, ff 110v-118v
Title:
Glossary and recipes
Scope & Content:
ff. 110v-113r: Glossary of simples; Incipit: 'Diascorides noscitur fecisse hunc librum quam [sic] / misit avunculo suo … quid pro quo debeat poni / et accipi a vobis. Pro accacia succuslentia (?) / Pro accoro radix asari', expl. 'Pro yris ylliri/ca yreos et cetera'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:
9 folios.

8. Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v
Title:
Chronicle relating to the year 1291
Scope & Content:
A chronicle relating to the year 1291 and possibly referring to the death of Jeanne of Chatillon, Countess of Blois and Chartres; incipit: 'En lan de grace mil cc quatre vins et onze le rendi devant la commision saint pol'. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
18 folios.

9. Harley MS 4361, ff 1r-6r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361, ff 1r-6r
Title:
Table of contents
Scope & Content:
Table of rubrics to the Livre de Sydrac.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
6 folios.

10. Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v
Title:
Livre de Sydrac
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
90 folios.

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