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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 215r-216r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 215r-215v: Recipe for the Oil of Exeter; Title 'For to make oyil off excetyr', incipit: 'Take a pownd off the flowyrys of cowslopys in the monyth off May / and stepe them in oyle off olyff', expl. 'Iune for / all the yere affter / calamynt ambrose. Probatur W. G.'. Listed in L. E. Voigts ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1720
Title:: Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum of Georg Joachim Rheticus, b. 1514, d. 1574) (original name Georg Joachim De Porris, or Von Lauchen), Austrian astronomer and mathematician. An earlier, simplier version of the work was published in 1551 in Leipzig.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-1596
Extent:: 274 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:: A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1485
Extent:: 52 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v
Title:: John Crophill, Commonplace Book
Scope & Content:: This portion of the manuscript includes three texts sparsely annotated in the margins by Crophill: Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v); Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v); Cookery recipes (ff. 16v-28v). Decoration: Large initial (6 lines; f. 1r) in metallic red (mostly tarnished) on square go...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:: Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:: Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1484
Extent:: 8 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
Title:: John Crophill, Notebook
Scope & Content:: John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1456-1485
Extent:: 17 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1737
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, with some later, mainly 13th-century glosses (ff. 1r-33r). Imperfect, incipit: 'ulla in re ratio utriusque latitudinis...' Decoration: Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, 1 full-page diagram added at the end (f. 33v). Initials in red or brown, occas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1811
Title:: Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar with canons, and other astronomical texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Leaves from an antiphonary or breviary used as flyleaves (ff. 1r-2v); 2. Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar (ff. 3r-33v); 3. Nicholas of Lynn, abbreviated calendar canons, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...' (ff. 34r-36v); 4. Prognostication text (ff. 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: After 1387-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1811, ff 1r-2v
Title:: Antiphonary or breviary (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Leaves from an antiphonary or a breviary were used as flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript. The leaves at the beginning start with chants for 1st and 2nd Sunday in Lent. Space was left for a musical notation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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