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1. Harley MS 273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273
Title:
Compilation of religious and secular texts
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany of religious and secular texts written in England (mostly in Anglo-Norman) and assembled for devotional and instructive purposes. It is made of six parts: First unit (ff. 1r-69v) includes a French Psalter with a calendar, followed by other liturgical prayers, and Hours of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1349
Extent:

1 volume

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Harley MS 524

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 524
Title:
Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Harley MS 585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585
Title:
Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:
Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. 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.

7. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. 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)

9. 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.

10. 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.