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121. Harley MS 5139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5139
Title:
Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus Pauperum, in an anonymous Italian translation; alchemical and medical recipes; fragment of the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous Italian translation of the Thesaurus pauperum (Treasury of the poor), a comprehensive medical manual of diseases and remedies by Petrus Hispanus (or Peter of Spain), traditionally identified with the Portuguese scholar and ecclesiastic Peter Juliani (b. c. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

122. Harley MS 5228

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5228
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany (imperfect), composed of eight independent units: First unit (ff. 2r-36v) includes: 1. Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi. Second unit (ff. 37r-67v) includes: 2. De anathomia (ff. 37r-38v); 3. Modus medendi (ff. 38v-44v); 4. Copho?, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1160-1250
Extent:

140 folios.

123. Harley MS 5228, ff 76r-93r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5228, ff 76r-93r
Title:
Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
The fourth unit includes a collection of medical recipes (c. 103 recipes) in Latin and Old French. Incipit: '[A]ccipe raphanum et scinde per rotulas et po/ne in aceto', second recipe: incipit: 'Pur guttanire prenez limazuus ? sis fendez si me/tez sel de desure'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
18 folios.

124. Harley MS 6508

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6508
Title:
Wace, Roman de Brut
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-100r: Wace, Roman de Brut. Decoration: Two puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 1r, 8v). Initials with penwork decoration in red and brown at the top of the page, one with a human head in profile (f. 82v). Decorated catchwords (e.g. f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

125. Harley MS 6669

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6669
Title:
La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: La comence le plé de la couronne (a legal treatise on duties of the seneschal). Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

126. MS Mus. 2-83

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 2-83
Title:
Francis Chagrin Collection: Music manuscripts and papers of the composer, conductor and administrator Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
Scope & Content:
All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in pencil, except where otherwise stated. Manuscripts are arranged chronologically within each section where a date can be established, then alphabetically for undated pieces. Dates of recording, where cited, are descibed as ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, Romanian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1927-1974
Extent:
82 volumes

127. MS Mus. 65-83

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 65-83
Title:
Francis Chagrin Collection: Papers
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1927-1974]
Extent:
19 volumes

128. MS Mus. 67

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 67
Title:
Scope & Content:
MS Mus. 67. CHAGRIN COLLECTION. Vol. lxvi. Miscellaneous papers; 1934-5, 1952-71. ff. 162. Largest size 328 x 248mm. 1. ff. 1-46. Notes for talks and lectures by Chagrin; circa 1952-71. 2. ff. 47-162. Notes from Nadia Boulanger’s music history classes; 1934-5. Typewritten résumés and copies o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1934-1971
Extent:
1 item

129. Royal MS 12 C XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XIX
Title:
Bestiary with theological texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200-c 1210
Extent:

1 volume

130. Royal MS 12 F XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 F XIII
Title:
Bestiary and Lapidary ('the Rochester Bestiary')
Scope & Content:
The Rochester Bestiary is a richly illuminated bestiary, or book of beasts. It is known as the Rochester Bestiary because it was once owned by the Benedictine monks of the cathedral priory of St Andrew, Rochester. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Added leaves from a service book containing lessons and pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1230
Extent:

1 volume

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