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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 169r-181v
Title:: Secreta Alberti
Scope & Content:: Secreta Alberti. This text, also known as Experimenta Alberti or Liber aggregationis, relates to herbs, stones and animals used in medicine and was partly compiled from De mineralibus of Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Prologue 'Sjcut vult philosophus in pluri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 181v-182v
Title:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis
Scope & Content:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis. Rubric 'Incipiunt ii experimenta de corio serpentis / translata a Johanne Paulino', incipit: 'Cum ego Johannes Paulinus essem in / Alexandriam civitatem egyptiorum / reperi', explicit: 'Expliciunt 12 experimenta / extratta de libro Alcani qui salus vite voc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 182v-183r
Title:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis
Scope & Content:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis. Title (f. 182v) 'Incipiunt ludi nature regis Salomonis quos / (f. 183r) misit regine', incipit (f. 183r): 'Ad faciendam aquam comburentem'. Another copy is Sloane MS 121 (ff. 90v-92r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2379
Title:: Tracts on vices and virtues; Speculum Christiani; Gospel harmony; De Spiritu Guidonis; Speculum sacerdotum; William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis; The Gret Sentence; theological verses and notes; Decretum abbreviatum; Pseudo-Bonaventura, Dieta Salutis; Tabulae Dieta Salutis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A collection of Latin tracts on vices, virtues and catechesis, entitled ‘vinea domini de cibu anime’; featuring excerpts from the Cibus Anime. ff. 57r-70v: Speculum Christiani, featuring Middle English verse on f. 62v (‘Whose wyll have helle / he must do as we hym telle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2380
Title:: Collection of medical recipes and charms, with four religious songs in Middle English
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Table of contents, beginning: 'Pro capite Dolor capitis [later addition] / For wert and vanite in þe hed', followed by additional entries by a 17th-century hand. ff. 6r-61v, 63v-64v. Collection of over 250 medical recipes in Middle English, inconsistently numbered (ff. 6-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2382
Title:: Middle English verse collection including Lydgate's Life of Our Lady and Chaucer's Prioress' Tale and Second Nun's Tale
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2574) ff.75r-86r: The Assumption of Our Lady(New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2165) ff. 86v-87r: Prayer to the Virgin from the Speculum Christiani (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2119...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2383
Title:: English theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Speculum Sacerdotis (Speculum Edwardi), imperfect at the beginning; ending ‘Explicit speculum Edwardi quod Simon Smyht [sic] et inde testimonium peribet [sic] dominus iohannes mydwyntyr’. ff. 15v-24v: Liber Bonitatis, beginning ‘Sacerdos dicit Domine labia Deus in adiuto...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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