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6491. Harley MS 6226

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6226
Title:
Copies of records of Henry III
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-24v: Copies of records of Henry III. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A title-page: ‘Coppies of Recordes of .H.3.’; added by Ralph Starkey (d. 1628). f. 25r: A note about the hundred of Robert de Bruce (d. 1245), and his son Robert, beginning 'Inventum est...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

6492. Harley MS 6239/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6239/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 6239
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 6239 (A translation of Alexander Patricius Armacanus' Mars Gallicus) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 6239

6493. Harley MS 6251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6251
Title:
The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (abbreviated version to 1419)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-105v: The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (abbreviated version to 1419). Part of Matheson's Group C (AV-1419:C) (see Matheson, The Prose Brut (1998), no. 132). Decoration: 'Champ' initial in colours and gold with foliate spray, badly rubbed (f. 1r). Numerous large initials ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6494. Harley MS 6253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6253
Title:
Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More
Scope & Content:
Harpsfield's Life of More was written during Queen Mary I's reign and dedicated to More's son-in-law William Roper, who supplied him with notes. The dedication is signed N. H: L: D. (Nicholas Harpsfield, f. 5*v). ff. 2*v–109r: 'The life and death of Sir Thomas Moore knight, sometymes Lord high ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6495. Harley MS 6258 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, translations and recipes. Contents as follows: 1. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium (ff. 1r-44r); 2. Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes and remedies in Old English and Latin (ff. 44v-51r); 3. Peri didaxeon (ff. 51v-66v)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

6496. Harley MS 6258 B, ff 1r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 1r-44v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
Scope & Content:
The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
44 folios

6497. Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus. The text consists of the Old English translations of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. 1. ff. 44v-45v: De taxone liber (c. 8 recipes). Prologue 'Þe Egypta king ['rexe / king/ rex' added in the margin] þe idpartus wæs hatan / Octaviano þ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
8 folios.

6498. Harley MS 6258 B, ff 51v-66v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 51v-66v
Title:
Peri Didaxeon
Scope & Content:
This is the only known copy of the translation into Old English of a Latin collection of recipes mainly based on Petrocellus' Practica and Gariopontus material which were probably compiled not earlier than in 1035. The text is imperfect at the end. Rubric (f. 51v) 'Incipit liber qui dicitur / pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
16 folios.

6499. Harley MS 6280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6280
Title:
‘Liber statutorum’ of St Davids Cathedral
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–2r: Notes on the use of the manuscript for legal purposes in the early 19th century. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 4r–110v: ‘Liber Statutorum’. Includes copies of episcopal, royal, papal and related documents and grants. f. 111r: Added notes on events in St Davids (18th century). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-1520s
Extent:

1 volume

6500. Harley MS 6281

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6281
Title:
A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-239r: A transcript of a Latin census of the names of cities, boroughs, villages, hundreds and the lords of manors throughout England. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r: A note: ‘A transcript of the booke called Nomina Villarum – Kept in the Office of the Treasur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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