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...
Volume of extracts from theological writers. Written from both ends of the volume. ff. 1-206: Extracts from Corvinus and Wilkins. Extracts from Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus, Jus canonicum per aphorismos strictim explicatum (1648). Extracts from John Wilkins, Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concern...
Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A Psalter. Preceded by a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) including saints linked to Northern France, such as Firmin (Amiens) in red and Honore (Amiens) and Angadrême (Beauvais), who also feature in the litany (ff. 180-184v) alongside Symphorien (Autun), Evroul (Normandy), Riquier (A...
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
Extracts from late 13th century plea rolls. With some accounts relating to service in Cromwell’s army. Contents: ff. 1-2: Records of movements of horses. f. 4r: Accounts of money received for service in a regiment. f. 3v: Note dated December 1659 explaining source of following folios (ff. 4-4...
Contents: ff. 1r-52v: A treatise on the sphere, geophysics, geography and cosmology known as 'Compendium astronomiae'. ff. 53r-134v: A treatise on astronomy. Decoration: Several geometrical diagrams.
Miscellany including Medical Treatises and Astrological Texts and Tables; early 15th cent. with 13th-cent. pastedowns. Middle English and Latin. Imperfect. The cataloguing of this miscellaneous and composite manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the medical texts are fully itemis...
Collection of Greek ecclesiastical hymns: kekragaria, anastasima, hexapsalmi, megalynaria, cherubica, eothina of the Emperor Leo, with late Byzantine notation.
Common law collection in a single hand, by an unidentified compiler. Black ink with red ink additions and marginal notes. Chapter headings: Fee-SimpleFee-TayleTenant au Tayle apres poss’t y diss. extinctTenant per le Curtesye d’EngleterreTenant en DowerTenant a Terme de VyeTenant par Terme des ...