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1312. Harley MS 1602
- 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
1313. Harley MS 1604
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1604
- Title:
- History and theology tracts
- Scope & Content:
- Composite volume of historical extracts relating to Westminster Abbey, notes on the history of England, and theological tracts. Contents: f. 1: Notes on the building of Westminster Abbey by Henry III, taken from the history of Thomas Walsingham. Latin. ff. 2-4: Account of the founding of the...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1314. Harley MS 1605/1
- 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
1315. Harley MS 1605/2
- 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
1316. Harley MS 1605/3
- 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
1317. Harley MS 1606
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1606
- Title:
- Extracts from Corvinus, Wilkins, and Adams
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Undetermined
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1318. Harley MS 1607
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1607
- Title:
- Psalter
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
1319. Harley MS 1608
- 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
1320. Harley MS 1609
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1609
- Title:
- Extracts from rolls of the Common Pleas
- Scope & Content:
- 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...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1650s
- Extent:
- 1 volume