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251. Harley MS 1687, f 1v

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.

252. Harley MS 1687, ff 2r-127r

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.

253. Harley MS 1687, ff 128r-139r

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.

254. Harley MS 1706, f 215r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, f 215r
Title:
Suffrage to Saint Ethelburga
Scope & Content:
An added suffrage to Saint Ethelburga.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
1 folio.

255. Harley MS 1706, ff 1v-2v

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.

256. Harley MS 1706, ff 3r-95v

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.

257. Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v

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.

258. Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r

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.

259. Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v
Title:
John Crophill, Commonplace Book
Scope & Content:
This portion of the manuscript includes three texts sparsely annotated in the margins by Crophill: Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v); Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v); Cookery recipes (ff. 16v-28v). Decoration: Large initial (6 lines; f. 1r) in metallic red (mostly tarnished) on square go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
28 folios.

260. Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:
Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:
Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1484
Extent:
8 folios