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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 2320, ff 5r-30v
Title:: Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma
Scope & Content:: Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), nos. 636.00 and 1594.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 26 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1, ff 2r-15v
Title:: Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum
Scope & Content:: Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum, in the Latin translation by Michael Scot (1217). Decoration: 12 astronomical diagrams in ink (ff 6r, 7v, 9r, 9v, 10v, 11r, 12r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 15r, 15v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, f 6v
Title:: Four medical recipes 'For þe ston'
Scope & Content:: Four medical recipes entitled 'For þe ston', incipit: 'Take bryssyd comyn and camamylle mugwyd and malowes stamp togedyr / and sethe'. Partly listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 20...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 65r-72r
Title:: Pontius de Sancto Egidio, Cure or Modus medendi
Scope & Content:: Pontius de Sancto Egidio, Cure or Modus medendi; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. A medical treatise by the French physician Ponce de Saint Gilles (13th century), for whom see Wickersheimer 1979 and D. Jacquart, Supplément au E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moye...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v
Title:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3091, ff 6r-21v
Title:: Collection of four works by Bede
Scope & Content:: Collection of four works by Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk of Wearmouth–Jarrow: Bede, De natura rerum (ff. 6r-12r); Bede, De Temporibus (ff. 12v-17v); Bede, Epistola ad Wicthedum (ff. 17v-19v); Bede, De temporum ratione, chapter 29 (ff. 19v-21r) with added with calendrical notes (ff. 21r-21v) and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5228, ff 68r-75v
Title:: Practica (Et primo de apoplexia) and a text on lucky and unlucky days
Scope & Content:: The third unit includes two texts: Practica ('Et primo de apoplexia') (ff. 68r-72v); Incipit: 'Quoniam de egritudinibus singularum parcium humani corpori tractaturi sumus. principium a cerebro / quod est dignus'. A longer version of the same text is included on ff. 94v-101v (item 17) of the pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1, ff 47r-55v
Title:: Petrus Philomena de Dacia, Expositio super Algorismum Iohannis de Sacro Bosco
Scope & Content:: Petrus Philomena de Dacia, Expositio super Algorismum Iohannis de Sacro Bosco.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 14 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

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