Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Level: [41] Item - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (four recipes). The recipes relate to gout, stomach and eyes. Rubric: 'A goude medicine for þe goute', incipit: 'Take þe milk of a / cowe of on coloure and bene mele of ynde and seethe / hem'. Listed in Robins 1970.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff iir-ixv
Title:: Leaves from a liturgical manuscript (a lectionary?) with musical notation.
Scope & Content:: Leaves from a liturgical manuscript (a lectionary?) with musical notation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 1)
Title:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum
Scope & Content:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum, chapter 3: 'Et ne velitis...'; incipit: 'Quid prodest ei quem sordidant, generatio clara'. Here attributed to Ambrose.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)
Title:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Scope & Content:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1/2 column

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1*r-2v*
Title:: Table of contents and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: Table of contents in a 17th-century hand; an added ownership (?) inscription of Lucas Anstiy (Anstis?) (f. 2*r); and a dedication of the book to Robert Harley from John Anstis (f. 2*v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1724
Extent:: 2 parchment flyleaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1r-140r
Title:: Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: Livre de Sydrac. Decoration: Diagram in blue, brown and red ink of the planets (f. 117v); large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue wit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 140 leaves; 3 unfoliated leaves at the end.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 141r-156r
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum)
Scope & Content:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum). Decoration: Historiated initial of saint Edmund of Abingdon as a bishop holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog pursuing a hare, at the beginning of the text (f. 141)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 156r-168r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour. Decoration: Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1144
Title:: Collection of descents and arms
Scope & Content:: Heraldry collection of descents, and some arms. At the beginning of the volume is the start of a collection of gifts and confirmations of arms, limited to those of Wheeler of London, goldsmith, descended out of Worcestershire, and Peers of Westdowne, Kent. Manuscript consists of miscellaneou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1172
Title:: Heraldic book of grants of arms or crests
Scope & Content:: Collection of grants of arms or crests to different families copied out at length, or dockets of them, in no particular order. For a selected list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. I (1808), pages 574-577. ff. 79-80: Index of surnames.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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