Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:: A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:: Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 586
Title:: Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of four parts. The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century. The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century. Con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 587/1
Title:: Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes, which comprise Harley MS 587 (the other being Harley MS 587/2), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains the Temporale, Dedication of the Church, and the Calendar. The Breviary was adapted for the diocese of Worcester. The Calendar includes a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1415-c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 587/2
Title:: Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 2)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of two volumes which comprise Harley MS 587 (the first being Harley MS 587/1), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains a Psalter with the Litany, Blessings for the lessons of Matins, the Common of the Saints, the Sanctorale, and the Office of the Dead. The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1415-c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 590
Title:: Collection of historical papers compiled by John Foxe
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript of different historical papers was compiled by the martyrologist John Foxe (b. 1516/17, d. 1587). Contents: f. 1r: Part of an old roll, containing a survey of the Kent Marshes with drawings of the manor houses of 'Clyffe', 'Collynge', 'Halstowe', 'St Marys' and 'Alha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1540-c 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 591
Title:: Taxatio Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum authoritate Papae Nicholae Quarti; bills, inventories and indentures related to the belongings of colleges and chantries
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Taxatio Beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum authoritate Papae Nicholae Quarti facta A. D. 1291 H. 20. E.i; written in the 16th century. ff. 84r-91v: An 'Inventorie [...] of all the Plate and Juelles of all the the Colliges, Chauntries, Freechappelles, Fraternities, Brotherhedds...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 592
Title:: Extracts from records from the time of King Edward I to King Edward VI
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-79r: Extracts from records from the time of King Edward I to King Edward VI. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*r: ‘Dutchy Lancast[er]’, added in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 594
Title:: The first of two volumes with episcopal returns in the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of two volumes with original certificates from bishops concerning the state of their dioceses in reply to requests for information from the Privy Council for the diocesan population census of 1563 and 1603. In the first census, the Privy Council requested information...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1533-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

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