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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
Title:: John Crophill, Notebook
Scope & Content:: John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1456-1485
Extent:: 17 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1752, ff 2-14
Title:: Hymni Homerici viii-xviii and Hymnus in Apollinem lines 1-55. cod. H. in T. W. Allen, W. R. Halliday and E. E. Sykes, The Homeric Hymns, Oxford 1936 (see pp.xvi, xxxix-xlii).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1752, ff 15-48v
Title:: Orpheus, Argonauticaf. Vian, Les Argonautiques d' Orphée, Paris 1987.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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