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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 1736
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Scope & Content:: Medical Miscellany including the Middle English Translation of John Bradmore, Philomena; mid 15th cent. (1446), with late 15th- and 16th-cent. additions. Middle English and Latin. The cataloguing of the MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust. The manuscript contains (ff. 6-184v) an anonymous t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1441-1451
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1737
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, with some later, mainly 13th-century glosses (ff. 1r-33r). Imperfect, incipit: 'ulla in re ratio utriusque latitudinis...' Decoration: Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, 1 full-page diagram added at the end (f. 33v). Initials in red or brown, occas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1738
Title:: Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains a complete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, Harle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1740
Title:: Middle English account of and meditation on the Passion; Sermon, possibly for the Second Sunday after Trinity
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-22r: Account of the Passion of Christ in Middle English, entitled: 'Passio domini nostri Ihesu Cristi'. ff. 22r-24r: Meditation on the Passion in Middle English, entitled: 'Item de passione Christi bona contemplacio' (see Marx, 'British Library Harley MS 1740 and Popular Dev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1741
Title:: Richard Robinson, A Breaf Collection of the Queenes Majestis H. Courts of Recorde kept in and aboute the Cities of London and Westmister
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-23v: Richard Robinson (fl. c. 1575-c. 1600) of London, freeman of the Leathersellers' Company, ‘A Breaf Collection of the Queenes Majestis H. Courts of Recorde kept in and aboute the Cities of London and Westmister [sic]. What Magistrates, meaner officers, and manner of proceed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1580s-1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1742
Title:: Collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Collection of grammatical rules for young students of the Latin language, beginning: 'How mani maner of ways schall thou begynne to make laten and counstru v maner off wayes // The first att the Vocayve case'; written by 'F. Framton' (f. 35r). ff. 12r-38v: Treatise on La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1743
Title:: Hebrew-Latin dictionary.
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew A Hebrew-Latin dictionary. Milon ῾ivri-latini. מלון עברי-לטיני Note: General title is given on folio 1r, "Observationes et Additiones ad Buxtorfii Abreviaturas ut et ejusdem et reliquorum Bibliothecas Ebraeas. Coeptae 14 Aug. 1694". Part I, dealing with abbreviations (rashe ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:: 1694
Extent:: 20 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1744
Title:: Postillae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-2v: a parchment slip from an unidentified 14th-century liturgical manuscript containing musical notations. ff. 3r-57v: Postillae, a collection of short sermons on the Gospels or the Pauline epistles. Decoration: Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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