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1. Harley MS 2320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320
Title:
Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2320, f 71r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, f 71r
Title:
Medical recipe
Scope & Content:
Medical recipe, incipit: 'Take fetherwoy mylfoyle, mogewort / Rodeworte scabeiyse and merche / off eche off these'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 folio, followed by two folios.

3. Harley MS 2320, f 73r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, f 73r
Title:
Prognostication by dominical letter
Scope & Content:
Prognostication by dominical letter; 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), no. 589.00.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

4. Harley MS 2320, ff 1r-4v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 1r-4v
Title:
Calendar
Scope & Content:
Calendar, imperfect at the beginning (missing January-April).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

5. Harley MS 2320, ff 5r-30v

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.

6. Harley MS 2320, ff 31r-52r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 31r-52r
Title:
A lunar prognostication in verse
Scope & Content:
A lunar prognostication in verse; edited from the present manuscript in Means 1993, pp. 112-147; 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. 2119.00 and 6735.00, and in New...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
22 folios.

7. Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v
Title:
Directions for braiding
Scope & Content:
Directions for braiding; 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), no. 2947.00.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
19 folios.

8. Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 73v-74r
Title:
Medical recipes for mothers
Scope & Content:
Two medical recipes for mothers (f. 74r). Title 'A medecyn for the moder', incipit: 'Take grene ferne that growing / in the feylde'; title 'Anodyr for the same', incipit: 'Take the levys of / an elme'. A 17th-century hand produced another copy of the recipes on the facing page (f. 73v). Also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century-17th century
Extent:
2 folios.

9. Harley MS 2332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2332
Title:
Illustrated almanac
Scope & Content:
A small illustrated almanac produced during the time of Henry IV (r. 1399-1413). The manuscript includes: Calendar (ff. 1v-13r); Table of dominical letters (ff. 13v-14r); Solar eclipse diagrams from 1411 to 1479 (ff. 14v-15r); Lunar eclipse diagrams from 1406 to 1481 (ff. 15v-17r); Zodia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1412
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 2378

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378
Title:
Miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes. It was probably assembled by Nicholas Spalding, its 15th-century owner (his ex-libris on f. 135v and his name on ff. 5r and 61v). The two larger collections of medical recipes in the book (ff. 17r-61v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1722
Extent:
1 volume

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