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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 12r-14r
Title:: Text on seven herbs and seven planets
Scope & Content:: Text on seven herbs and seven planets. The text describes the therapeutic properties of the seven planets. In the manuscript tradition it was ascribed to Alexius Affricus, Flaccus Africanus or to the tradition of the Liber Kyranidarum Kyrani. Incipit 'Solsequium herba est omnibus nota collige er...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 14v-16v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 9 recipes). Two recipes (f. 14v), rubric 'Ffor þe gowte', incipit: 'Take ij galons of vryne þt is i monthe held and / sethe it and claryfy it' (two recipes); eight recipes (ff. 14v-15v) one of which for aqua vita, rubric 'Pro collyca passione', incipit: 'Take halfe 1 pownd co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 17r-61v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Nicholas Spalding (?), Medical recipes (c. 250 recipes), imperfect. This collection was apparently put together by Nicholas Spaldyng or Spalding. Title 'For to make pelots of antioche', incipit: 'Take croppes of the rede / coole of the rede netle tansey hemp and of sparge', expl. 'ley it on þe pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 35 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 61v-62v
Title:: Medical recipes (6 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (6 recipes). Rubric (f. 61v) 'Gargaris / ius pro pro/gacione cap/itis dencium / et gingiuarum', incipit: 'Recipe senapii sangie pireter de spayn et sucus istarum herbarum', explicit: 'fratris ricardi Barton'; rubric (f. 61v) 'Pro febribus', incipit: 'Tak of wormewode scabiose fumi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 63r-110r
Title:: Nicolaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium
Scope & Content:: Nicolaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. A copy of a collection of pharmacopoeial remedies in alphabetical order written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicolaus Salernitanus or Nicholas of Salerno and therefore also known as the Antidotary Nicolai. Its m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:: 47 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 110v-118v
Title:: Glossary and recipes
Scope & Content:: ff. 110v-113r: Glossary of simples; Incipit: 'Diascorides noscitur fecisse hunc librum quam [sic] / misit avunculo suo … quid pro quo debeat poni / et accipi a vobis. Pro accacia succuslentia (?) / Pro accoro radix asari', expl. 'Pro yris ylliri/ca yreos et cetera'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 118v-120v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 15 recipes). Incipit: 'Take v graynes of catarpuse and þe quantite of hony / as a bene and put þerto ij sponful of lewke water'. Recipes copied by a number of hands. One recipe on f. 120v published in G. Henslow 1899. Listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 121r-135v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Collection of medical recipes compiled by Nicholas Spalding; the continuation of this text is included in ff. 137r-154v (circa 167 recipes, two less than the 169 quoted in the table of contents); Imperfect. The collection was popular and can be found in many manuscripts: see Robbins 1970; Hargrea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 136r-136v
Title:: Medical recipes (8 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (8 recipes). Rubric 'For þe rede flixe', incipit: 'Take a penny wyhte of lapis caluminaris'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 4767.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 137r-154v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes. The text continuation ofthe text on ff. 121r- 135v. Title (f. 137) 'For þe gout þat comyth sondenly', incipit: 'Take / þe leuys of sauge and of anys', explicit (f. 154v): 'late hym lye stille on þe hol syde', including a charm (ff. 143v-144r) agai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 18 folios.

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