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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 268
Title:: A collection of exempla; Etienne de Besançon, Alphabetum Narrationem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-44r: A collection of exempla, beginning ‘Hic incipiunt exempla bona et moralia de Johanne Patriarcha’. ff. 45r-201r: Etienne de Besançon, Alphabetum Narrationem. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1v-2r: A ‘heavenly letter’, beginning ‘This is þe copy of of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 270
Title:: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans
Scope & Content:: The volume is made up of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1r-122v, 123r-149v), as follows: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket (ff. 1r-122v); Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans (ff. 123r-149v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1175-1249
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 270, ff 123r-149v
Title:: Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius
Scope & Content:: Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius. Title (f. 123r) 'Incipit liber platearij de simplici medicina', prologue incipit: 'Circa instans negotium in simplicibus medicinis / nostrum versatur propositum'; table of contents for letters A and B, text incipit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 26 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 271
Title:: The true processe of Englysh polecie; Benedict Burgh, Parvus Cato, Cato Maior
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v:, 45r-45v: two leaves (possibly a bifolium) from an 11th-century missal, beginning on f. 1*r: 'Deus qui tribus pueris mitigasti' and f. 45r: 'Illo manducaret et ingressus domum pharisei discubuit'. The two leaves contain old foliation numbers in black ink: '49' (f. 1r) and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
Title:: Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
Scope & Content:: Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 274
Title:: Formulary for charters and testaments
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13r: 'Tractatus de propretatibus et circumstancijs cartarum et scriptorum per Richardum de Ertham editus'. ff. 13r-14r: 'Statutum de emptoribus terrarum'. ff. 14r-29r: Collection of formula for charters, beginning with 'Carta simplex'. ff. 29r-49r: Methods for calculating...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 275
Title:: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae, Incendium amoris, Commentarius in Iob seu Postille super novem lectiones mortuorum; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes Piissimae; Innocent III, De contemptu mundi; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Jerome's translation of Origen’s Homilies on the Song of Songs; Speculum humanae salvationis; A Christmas Carol; A Latin treatise against divination and superstition; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological treatises in Latin and Middle English that was probably produced in a monastic environment. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Emendatio vitae. ff. 12v-46r:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 276
Title:: Gospel of John, with gloss
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–68v: Gospel of John, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Decoration: Large and smaller initials in red (ff. 1r–2v), two with penwork decoration in brown ink (ff. 1v, 2v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 279
Title:: Culinary treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Tables of contents for the manuscript’s culinary treatises. ff. 6r-26r: Potage Dyvers. ff. 27v-36r: Vyaunde Leche. ff. 37v-43v: Vyaunde Furnez. ff. 45r-49r: Menus for various feasts. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 44r: A table of contents for menus at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430s
Extent:: 1 volume

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