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51. Harley MS 55, f 4v

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.

52. Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r

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.

53. Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v

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.

54. Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v

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.

55. Harley MS 57

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

56. Harley Ms 57, ff 2r-25v

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.

57. Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v

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.

58. Harley MS 79

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79
Title:
Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1r-26r and 27r-46v) and includes: 1. Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford, 1302 (ff. 1r-1v); 2. Statuta Angliae (ff. 2r-26r); 3. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 27r-46r). 4. Medical recipes (f. 46v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1499
Extent:

1 volume

59. Harley MS 79, f 46v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79, f 46v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

60. Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford of 1302: inscribed 'Tempore fr[at]ris Joh[an]is de Weybur[n] abb[at]is Osen[sis] a festo s[anc]ti Egidii Anno domini m ccc ii' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1302-c 1320
Extent:
1 folio.

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