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181. Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r
Title:
Treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the plague; incipit: 'Ad preservandum corpus a pestilensia .i.e. do coimed an cuirp a naimsir na plaga', explicit: 'Item balad mumia do gabail / a naimsir na plaga ocus is tarbach sin'. The Latin source of the present treatise has not been identified.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

182. Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r
Title:
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5: De urinis (extract)
Scope & Content:
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5, De urinis, extract; incipit: 'Condiciones Bernardi Gordonia de urína .i.e. cuirid Bernard .9. cuingill .x. / annso ar an fuál', explicit: 'an fual do beith ísil isna heslaintib geara ocus ard isna heaslaintib rigni et reliqua'. The text is an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

183. Harley MS 546, ff 71r-72r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 71r-72r
Title:
Treatise on urine
Scope & Content:
Treatise on urine; imperfect, incipit: 'Tria sunt in urina .i.e. atait tri neithe is eigin don liaig / dfecain do leith an fuail', explicit 'na ichtar ocus na uachtar ocus isin region meadhonac'. The Latin source of this treatise has not been identified; it survives in at least four other MSS. da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

184. Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
101 folios.

185. Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

186. Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v

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.

187. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

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.

188. Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83
Title:
Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: f. 2r: A title-page. f. 2v: A table of contents. ff. 4r-20v: Anonymous, Chronica de veteribus Brittanis et Anglo-Saxonibus (Chronicle on the Old Britons and Anglo-Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1639-1643
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 624

189. Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:
Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:
This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 624

190. Harley MS 624, ff 144-217

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 624, ff 144-217
Title:
Chronicles
Scope & Content:
This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: ff. 144r-144v: A Latin inscription followed by a fragment from a letter in English referring to the inhabitants of Dalham, 17th century. f. 145r: A drawing of king W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1639-1643
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 624

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