A fragment of a 14th-century antidotarium. Begins: 'montani alii marini. Montani plus sunt diuretica quam marini plus confortativi et usui medicine laudabiliores' (imperfect). Ends: 'Quare in medicinis mel ponatur satis superius dictum'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
6 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
Now late me thought I would begin (NIMEV 2347; DIMEV 3777). A lament of the Virgin Mary, in 72 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with the refrain, ‘Who can not wepe come lerne at me’. Other witnesses: - Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 423, ff. 192v-205r (includes five stanzas not in the pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
12 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
Two short treatises (ff. 47r-48v, 48v-50v) relating to urine and uroscopy (eVK2 nos 2878.00 and 7764.00), possibly extracts from Henry Daniel, Dome of Uryns (Liber uricrisarium) (see Keiser, Works of Science (1998), p. 3661). The first treatise begins: 'In the begynnyng þu shalt take hede to 4 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
Four leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
A collection of Latin and Middle English medical texts (possibly imperfect). The collection comprises recipes, charms and short texts relating to the therapeutic use of herbs, 46 in Middle English and 10 in Latin, including one relating to rosemary on ff. 51v-52 (eVK2 nos 6246.00 and 5526; see...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
6 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
A fragment of an astrological text. Begins: '[...]esydue of þe medyl mevyng [...] and þe medyll argumentis'. Ends: 'þe wyche is to be mayd lesse of þe medill mevyng off þe sunne et cetera. Finis quod Wyllelmus Geffrum'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum (fragment)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 221, and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
15 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
Prognostication by dominical letter; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 589.00.