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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2374
Title:: A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, 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 2385
Title:: Middle English treatises and Latin sermons; Richard of Saint-Victor, Epistola ad Severinum de Caritate; Vita Secundi philosophi; a collection of miracles and exempla
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises five different parts that were produced separately in England. Part 1 (ff. 2r-8v) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. 11r-25v) was written around the mid or in the second half of the 15th century. Parts 3 (ff. 26r-31v) and 4 (ff. 32r-36v)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2387
Title:: Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-129v: Walter Hilton, Scala perfectionis (Ladder of Perfection); imperfect, the first two parts only. With the opening rubric: ‘Here bygynyth þe boke þat is I clepyde scale perfeccionis and it haþ twey partes’; beginning: ‘Gostly broþer in Ihesu crist I preye þe þat in þe cally...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2388
Title:: Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:: This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2391
Title:: Collection of sermons, exempla and didactic works in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prognostications for Christmas day and subsequent days (Latin). ff. 2r-133r: John Mirk, Festial, Middle English sermons from Advent to St Katherine. ff. 133r-133v: The Nine Virtues, shown by God to a ‘gud and a hely man’. f. 134r: The Ten Commandments, here entitled ‘D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2392
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2395
Title:: Parish register of Steventon, 1559-1599
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A parish register of Steventon, recording baptisms, marriages and burials between 1559 and 1599. ff. 57r-58r: An account of ministers who preached in the church of Steventon from 1573 to 1578.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1559-1599
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2396
Title:: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-78v: Wycliffite sermons on the Sunday epistles, Sunday gospels, and ferial gospels, beginning incompletely in the epistle sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, and ending with the Friday gospel sermon for the 5th week after the Octave of Epiphany. For a detailed list of sermo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2399
Title:: Composite miscellany of fragments, including Plato, Timaeus (Latin translation); Ambrose, De Bono mortis; Simon Islip, Speculum regis Edwardi tertij; Calendar (Use of Sarum); Middle English poem on the Infancy and other Middle English poems; Sentence of Cursing; Digby Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms; Sermon on the treatment of illness; Collection of theological excerpts and sermons
Scope & Content:: The composite contains nine parts with fragments of other manuscripts, including classical, historical, liturgical, theological and medical texts that were written at different time periods in England. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) was copied in the late 12th century. The second part (ff. 9r-12r) w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1625
Extent:: 1 item

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