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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55
Title:: Anglo-Saxon miscellany including medical remedies and Anglo-Saxon laws by Edgar and Cnut
Scope & Content:: The volume is made up of fragments from two different manuscripts. The first fragment (ff. 1r-4v; unit A) probably formed the end of the original manuscript, and includes: Bald, Leechbook, book 2, chapter 59 (ff. 1r-3r); Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975) (ff. 3v-4v); Oswald, archbishop of Yo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, f 4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Oswald, archbishop of York (972-992), a statement relating to alienated lands in Otley, Ripon and Sherburn-in-Elmet and of lands obtained for York by Archbishop Oscytel (d. 1071), Oswald's predecessor; with additions possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (1003-1016) and archbisho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1003-1023
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Bald's Leechbook (20 remedies), imperfect, incipit: 'Wið þære heal Fdeadan adle and hwanon seo cume seo adl cymð on þa swiðran healfe'; explicit: 'wæteres bollan / Fulne to gedrincanne'. The text corresponds to chapter 59 of book 2 of the 'Laecebok' or Leechbook, copied by Cild for Bald at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975), with the Latin title 'Lege Eadgari' added in the upper margin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Cnut (r. 1016-1035). Decoration: Large initials (2-3 lines; ff. 5, 7v, 13) in red, paragraph initials touched in red, rubric (f. 5r) in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 57
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 2r-25v) and an excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna (ff. 26r-27v). A small parchment label pasted on f. 1r includes a 14th-century inscription providing a table of contents for the volume signed by an early owner...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley Ms 57, ff 2r-25v
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals, stones and metals, and was probably composed in stages between 1248 and 1262. Rubric 'Incipit liber primus mineralium qui est ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v
Title:: Excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna
Scope & Content:: The manuscript also includes a fragment from the 'Distinctiones de vita eterna', a collection of concordances of biblical sentences, imperfect; incipit: 'In euangelio super illum locum faciamus hic tria tabernacula' (Math. 17: 4), explicit: 'Dixit custos. Venit mane et nox. Si queritis' (Isaiah ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 69
Title:: The booke of certaine triumphes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63v: A large collection of tracts, letters, and notes in English and French concerning court affairs and entertainment, jousting and the bearing of coats of arms, known as ‘The booke of certaine triumphes’. Decoration: Full-, half-, and quarter-page drawings of knights joust...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 71
Title:: A survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-80r: William Homberton (‘Esquire surveyor of the possessions’) and John Harwar (‘deputie receyvour’), survey of all royal manors, honours, castles, lordships, tenements and other hereditaments in the counties of Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire; writte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1559
Extent:: 1 volume

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