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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1600
Title:: Collection of medical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: A collection of medical and surgical recipes and charms from the late 14th century or early 15th century with added recipes and charms that date to the late 15th and/or early 16th century. Two of the charms refer to the Earl of Hereford (f. 35r) and the Infirmary of Killyngworth (f. 35v). The re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1602
Title:: Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/1
Title:: Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/2
Title:: A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/3
Title:: The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1390-early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1608
Title:: Registrum Brevium de Cancellaria Regis Edwardi I
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-173v: Brief register of the chancery of Edward I (Registrum Brevium de Cancellaria Regis Edwardi I). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in gold and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 3r). Paraphs in red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1610
Title:: Collection of religious and grammatical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Theological commonplaces. ff. 14r-15r: 'Regulae accentuandi'. ff. 15r-15v: Part of a Latin vocabulary. ff. 16v-17r: 'De constructione verborum'. ff. 17v-18r: Grammatical notes. ff. 18v-19r: Poem on St Margaret. ff. 19r, 20r: Tracts on grammar, begininng: 'Ut pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1615
Title:: John of Wales, Ars praedicandi (excerpt); collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: John of Wales, Ars praedicandi (excerpt), beginning: 'Predicatio est thematis assumptio eiusdem thematis divisio, thematis divisi subdivisio, concordantiarum congrua consultacio et auctoritatum adductarum clara et devota explanatio'. ff. 3r-126v: Collection of Latin sermo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1619
Title:: Collection of theological and historical treatises, including an English translation of Aristotle's Politics
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Notes in English, concerning the price of a hide of land, and the foundations of colleges in Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster. f. 2r: Definition of 'Abacus'. ff. 2r-2v: 'Twelfe steppes that a Christian may stride towards heaven, and being in the first may think him self a g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1572-c 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1620
Title:: Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-189v: Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (from the beginning to the reign of Richard I). The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*r-2*v, 190r-191v: Fragments from a 14th-century liturgical book with musical notation on 4-line red staves, used as flyleaves. Decoration: Large in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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