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1. Harley MS 3941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was originally a single codex, but has been divided into two volumes, now Harley MS 3941/1 and Harley MS 3941/2. The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b. 599, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

2 volumes

2. Harley MS 2677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2677
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold of Pliny writing in his study, and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, combined with a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1457-1458
Extent:
509 folios.

3. Harley MSS 3799-3809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MSS 3799-3809
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicinae.
Scope & Content:
This collection of 11 volumes contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (b. c. 1380, d. 1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on Books 1 (fen I-IV), 3, and 4 (only fen I) of the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475
Extent:
11 volumes

4. Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v
Title:
Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (Chronique de Charlemagne), incipit: 'Cj comence le stoire qui / Turpin le ercevesque / de reins'. For the text see Walpole 1976; listed with other four copies in Shepherd 1996. Decoration: Initials in red or blue. 2 drawings of hybrids in brown ink (ff. 95v, 102v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
17 folios.

5. Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 81r-85r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 81r-85r
Title:
Robert Grosseteste, Rules
Scope & Content:
Robert Grosseteste, Rules (Les Reules Seynt Roberd), incipit: 'Ici cumencent les reules qui Ro/bert Grosteste'. Originally written for Alice de Lacy, countess of Lincoln, widow of Thomas of Lancaster. For the text see S. H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
5 folios.

6. Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 191v-198v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r, ff 191v-198v
Title:
Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:
Purgatoire de S. Patrice; incipit: 'Ici comence purgatorie seint patric / [P]ur la bone gent conforter'. Written by the Ludlow scribe in collaboration with another scribe who copied lines 373-550: see C. Revard 1970. For the text and the manuscript see Vising 1916.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1314-1329
Extent:
8 folios followed by 1 blank folio

7. Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 16v-28v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 16v-28v
Title:
Cookery recipes
Scope & Content:
Cookery book (70 recipes); imperfect at the end. Title 'A tarte of fysche', incipit: 'Tak fyggys and reysingis and cynig', breaking off at 'ton wyt þe to3ere and onyouns mynced in þe'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
13 folios.

8. Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v
Title:
Prophecies of Esdras
Scope & Content:
Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

9. Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r, ff 54v-57r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r, ff 54v-57r
Title:
Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli
Scope & Content:
Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli. Prologue 'Rectangulum in remedium tediosi & difficilis operis', rubric 'Capitulum primum de arte componendi tibiam primam', incipit: 'Ad componendum igitur rectangulum, separemus laminam', explicit (f. 57r) 'ponimus istic finem', followed (f. 57r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
4 folios.

10. Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 110v-112v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 110v-112v
Title:
Guide to nightly and daily meditations
Scope & Content:
Guide to nightly and daily meditations with diagrams, followed by a prose text relating to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; incipit: 'En le nun Jhesu crist. Ci comence une me/ditacion'. For the texts see Dean and Boulton 1999, nos. 635, 861. Decoration: Initials in red. Two diagrams in red ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1300-1329
Extent:
3 folios.