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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1685, ff 1r-143v
Title:: Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:: The medical treatise compiled from various sources by Gariopontus or Guarimpotus (d. c. 1050), one of the first representantives of the medical school at Salerno. The work comprises seven books, the first five on human diseases discussed in 'a capite ad calcem' order, followed by two other books...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 143 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1685, ff 143v-144r
Title:: Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:: Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377), incipit: 'Ab origine Mundi usque ad incarnationem Christi mmmmm.c.xl', explicit: 'Anno aetatis Edwardi primogeniti illustri regis nostri xxiii', circa 1353-54.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1354-1399
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1687, f 1v
Title:: List of letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Scope & Content:: A list of letters of the Hebrew alphabet in Latin transliteration with Latin translations.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1687, ff 2r-127r
Title:: Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to Gulielmus Britonis (William Brito)
Scope & Content:: Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito, edited in L. W. and B. A. Daly, Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie (Padua, 1975; Thesaurus Mundi, 15, 16). It is an early copy of the Expositiones which were completed between 1250 and 1270 and cir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1260-c 1280
Extent:: 126 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1687, ff 128r-139r
Title:: Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei, part I
Scope & Content:: Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei, part I; incipit: 'Ferrum situ rubiginem ducit et uitis non putata in labruscam siluescit'. Neckam was abbot of Cirencester and a scholar. His work comprises a treatise on grammatical criticism followed by a scriptural commentary. Decoration: Initials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1260-c 1280
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Collection of medical recipes added to the flyleaves, including: 1. ff. 1v-2r, 2v: five medical recipes; Incipit (f. 1v): 'Tansey ij handfull / febryfew j handfull / mugwort iij handfull / calamynth … // [instructions on another column] Brose þese herbes and putt to every / ij goode handfull'; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1500
Extent:: 93 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

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