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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1887
Title:: Collection of medical recipes and treatments
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto (margins)-1*verso (margins), 1r-1v: Recipes, including a tract on 'The virtue and degree of herbs' and a 'Restorative'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century. ff. 2r-10v, 14r-45v: Latin treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, containing recipes for electuari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1545
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1888
Title:: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118r: A record of parliamentary proceedings for 1592, titled 'A Journall of the Parliament holden at Westminster in Anno 35 Reginae Elizabethae Anno Domini 1592' (f. 1*r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1592-1593
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1896
Title:: Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles, and the Athanasian Creed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Bilingual Psalter, in the later Wycliffite translation, with the Canticles and the Athanasian Creed. Decoration: 2 full borders in colours and gold with foliate decoration and gold balls and historiated initials at the beginning of Psalms 1, 109 (ff. 1r, 78v). 5 3-sided...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1897
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Templum Domini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is composed of two parts (Part 1: ff. 1-8 and Part 2: ff. 9-126) that were produced separately in the 13th century. The first part was written in France in the second half of the 13th century. The second part was written in France or England in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1225-c 1275
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1915
Title:: The Eusebian canon tables; Zacharias of Besançon, De Concordia Evangelistarum; Bede, Expositio Super Acta Apostolorum; Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum; Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim; Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is closely related to the readings of the New Testament as it includes a concordance on the four Gospels written by Zacharias of Besancon (d. 1157). It is followed by Bede's commentary on the Acts of Apostle, including his retractatio, a treatise in which he underlined his own mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1918
Title:: Homiliary with lectiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Homilia in Vigilia Paschalis, beginning: 'In Sancto Sabbato secundum Mattheum. Que luscecit in primam (sic) sabbati [...] Omelia Venerabilis Bede presbiteri, de eadem lectione. Vigilias nobis hujus sacratissime noctis', ending: 'qui vivit et reg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1919
Title:: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis; Pseudo-Berengaudus, Expositio in cantica canticorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-224r: Berengaudus, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis. ff. 224r-301r: Pseudo-Berengaudus, Expositio in cantica canticorum. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*verso: A title inscription: ‘Berengarij super Apocalypsin et Canticum Canticorum Exposit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1921
Title:: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting, including 2 printed page fragments on the topic of writing (ff. 51, 80).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1922
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v, 6r-14v, 16r-18v, 20r-26v, 29r-35v, 37r-42v, 45r-50v, 52r-57v, 62r-62v, 64r-65v: Coats of arms of English nobility and gentry, with names written in French, many of which seem to originate from Kent and Lancashire (as indicated by the cropped rubricated Latin headers in the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1924
Title:: Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-2v) and capitula (ff. 2v-3v), ending at chapter 42: 'et involutum novo amictu corpus levique in theca reconditum supra pavimentum sanctuarii composuerunt' (f. 48v). Chapters 41 and 44-46 are ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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