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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 155r-168v
Title:: Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes). Rubric 'To clarifie suger', incipit: 'Take a quarte of fayre water and put it in a panne / and þerto þe whyte of iij egges', explicit 'as in mystes / and glommyng weders / Explicit'. Two recipes (ff. 157r-158r) published in Henslow 1899, pp. 120-22...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1395
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 169r-181v
Title:: Secreta Alberti
Scope & Content:: Secreta Alberti. This text, also known as Experimenta Alberti or Liber aggregationis, relates to herbs, stones and animals used in medicine and was partly compiled from De mineralibus of Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Prologue 'Sjcut vult philosophus in pluri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 181v-182v
Title:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis
Scope & Content:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis. Rubric 'Incipiunt ii experimenta de corio serpentis / translata a Johanne Paulino', incipit: 'Cum ego Johannes Paulinus essem in / Alexandriam civitatem egyptiorum / reperi', explicit: 'Expliciunt 12 experimenta / extratta de libro Alcani qui salus vite voc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 182v-183r
Title:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis
Scope & Content:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis. Title (f. 182v) 'Incipiunt ludi nature regis Salomonis quos / (f. 183r) misit regine', incipit (f. 183r): 'Ad faciendam aquam comburentem'. Another copy is Sloane MS 121 (ff. 90v-92r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 1r-11v
Title:: Prayers and devotional texts
Scope & Content:: Collection of prayers and devotional texts, beginning with the Lord's prayer, incipit: 'Fadir ours þat ast in hevenes.' Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 12r-35v
Title:: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis etc hec oratio privilegiata'. ff. 31v-33v: Added rubric: 'Glosa Richardi de hampris heremite in oracione domenice..', incipit: 'Sequitur quedam brevis exposicio oracionis dominice.' ff. 33v-34v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:: Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:: ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 1r-28v
Title:: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio, incipit: 'Populus romanus a rege Romulo in Cesarem Augustum septingentos per annos tantum operum pace belloque gessit'. Space left for a rubric. Decoration: Large initial 'P' in blue with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text. Initial in r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

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