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411. Harley MS 2558, f 151v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 151v
Title:
Alchemical treatise
Scope & Content:
An alchemical treatise; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: 'Thesasauro [sic] nomine ponite intentionem vestram ad medicinam / alicui thesasauro'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

412. Harley MS 2558, f 166r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 166r
Title:
Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development
Scope & Content:
Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development. Title (added later) 'De conceptione et formatione embryi', incipit: 'Omnibus horis quibus connubit homo omni muliere'. Another copy in Harley MS 3383 (f. 77r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

413. Harley MS 2558, f 166v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 166v
Title:
Two diagrams of the female hand for prognostication and one charm against toothache
Scope & Content:
Two diagrams of the female hand for prognostication and one charm against toothache. Charm rubric 'Oracio pro dolore dentium', incipit: 'Virgo mater egregia pro nobis appollonea funde preces ad dominum ne pro reatu'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

414. Harley MS 2558, f 225v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 225v
Title:
Medical recipe
Scope & Content:
Medical recipe. Title (in the upper margin; 15th century) 'Ad faciendum pillulas', incipit: 'Ad conficiendum pillulas medicinales / Elera'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

415. Harley MS 2558, f 227v

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Harley MS 2558, f 227v
Title:
Weather prognostications; proverbs; Synonyma Abuali
Scope & Content:
Weather prognostications and proverbs. The text include the prognostications listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 914h; its elect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

416. Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v
Title:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms
Scope & Content:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
5 folios.

417. Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:
Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:
Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

418. Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 7r-8v
Title:
Novele cirurgerie, excerpt
Scope & Content:
Novele cirurgerie, excerpt (365 lines); Imperfect. A collection of medical recipes in Anglo-Norman verse. Beginning at 'En eisil e chaut sure mis', breaking at 'E sur ceo la confectiun'. Text fully printed in Hunt 1987. See also Hieatt and Jones 1990.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
2 folios.

419. Harley MS 2558, ff 9r-9v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 9r-9v
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, List of medical cases
Scope & Content:
List of Thomas Fayreford's medical cases with names of patients including over 100 named people cured by Fayreford. Title 'De curis factis per T. Ffayreforde in diversis locis', incipit: 'In primis in domina de Ponynges que habuit frenesim', explicit: 'item Johannes peterton'. Published in Jones...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

420. Harley MS 2558, ff 10r-11v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 10r-11v
Title:
Table of contents of the herbal
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of the herbal (see ff. 13r-64v); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The table lists the ailments from head to toe with the name of the relevant remedial herb. Incipit: 'Pro dolore capitis capitulo absinthium'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Sci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

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