Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 29r-34v
Title:: Antidotarium (fragment)
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a 14th-century antidotarium. Begins: 'montani alii marini. Montani plus sunt diuretica quam marini plus confortativi et usui medicine laudabiliores' (imperfect). Ends: 'Quare in medicinis mel ponatur satis superius dictum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 6 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 35r-46v
Title:: Now late me thought I would begin
Scope & Content:: Now late me thought I would begin (NIMEV 2347; DIMEV 3777). A lament of the Virgin Mary, in 72 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with the refrain, ‘Who can not wepe come lerne at me’. Other witnesses: - Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 423, ff. 192v-205r (includes five stanzas not in the pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 12 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 47r-50v
Title:: Doom of Urine compendium (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Two short treatises (ff. 47r-48v, 48v-50v) relating to urine and uroscopy (eVK2 nos 2878.00 and 7764.00), possibly extracts from Henry Daniel, Dome of Uryns (Liber uricrisarium) (see Keiser, Works of Science (1998), p. 3661). The first treatise begins: 'In the begynnyng þu shalt take hede to 4 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Four leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 51r-56v
Title:: Medical texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of Latin and Middle English medical texts (possibly imperfect). The collection comprises recipes, charms and short texts relating to the therapeutic use of herbs, 46 in Middle English and 10 in Latin, including one relating to rosemary on ff. 51v-52 (eVK2 nos 6246.00 and 5526; see...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 6 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 57r-57v
Title:: Astrological text (fragment)
Scope & Content:: A fragment of an astrological text. Begins: '[...]esydue of þe medyl mevyng [...] and þe medyll argumentis'. Ends: 'þe wyche is to be mayd lesse of þe medill mevyng off þe sunne et cetera. Finis quod Wyllelmus Geffrum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 leaf, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 58r-62v
Title:: Collection of astrological and prognostication texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of astrological and prognostication texts, with calendars and tables, mostly in Middle English.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 5 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 63r-77v
Title:: ?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum (fragment)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 221, and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 15 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2276
Title:: Middle English sermon collection
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Sixty sermons on the Sunday gospels, certain major feast-days in the Christmas season and Ascension, from the First Sunday in Advent to the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. Translated from the 12th-century Latin Filius matris collection, with additional sermons not based on the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2277
Title:: South English Legendary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2278
Title:: John Lydgate, Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund
Scope & Content:: The presentation copy of John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. Commissioned by Abbot William Curetys for presentation to King Henry VI upon or shortly after his visit to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds between Christmas 1433 and Easter 1434. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1434-1439
Extent:: 1 volume

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