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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010
Title:: Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Medical miscellany preceded by leaves from a liturgical manuscript (lectionary?) with musical notation (ff. ii recto-ix verso). Texts include: Treatise on urine (ff. 1r-23v); Regimen of health (ff. 23v-32r); Four medical recipes (ff. 32r-32v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1399
Extent:: 40 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff 1r-23v
Title:: Treatise on urine
Scope & Content:: Treatise on urine in Middle English with chapter titles in Latin. A list of uroscopic symptoms possibly drawn from a number of sources. It appears to differ from the Middle English compilation by Henry Daniel (fl. 1379), a Dominican friar and horticulturist. Incipit: 'Urene is clensyng of blode a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff 23v-32r
Title:: Regimen of health 'Ad sanitatem conservandam'
Scope & Content:: 'Ad sanitatem conservandam', a medical treatise; incipit: 'Quicumque vult continuam custodire sanitatem stomacum custodiat / ne cum sibi sit cibus necessarius eum prohibeat', explicit: 'et baccarum laur et hec / sufficiant'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (four recipes). The recipes relate to gout, stomach and eyes. Rubric: 'A goude medicine for þe goute', incipit: 'Take þe milk of a / cowe of on coloure and bene mele of ynde and seethe / hem'. Listed in Robins 1970.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff iir-ixv
Title:: Leaves from a liturgical manuscript (a lectionary?) with musical notation.
Scope & Content:: Leaves from a liturgical manuscript (a lectionary?) with musical notation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1023
Title:: Gospel-book
Scope & Content:: This is a 12th-century illuminated Gospel-book with glosses in Irish and Latin, and added texts in Latin. Its close similarities in text, script and decoration with the Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1802) and the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) both made in Armagh, su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121
Title:: Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 1)
Title:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum
Scope & Content:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum, chapter 3: 'Et ne velitis...'; incipit: 'Quid prodest ei quem sordidant, generatio clara'. Here attributed to Ambrose.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)
Title:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Scope & Content:: La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1/2 column

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1*r-2v*
Title:: Table of contents and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: Table of contents in a 17th-century hand; an added ownership (?) inscription of Lucas Anstiy (Anstis?) (f. 2*r); and a dedication of the book to Robert Harley from John Anstis (f. 2*v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1724
Extent:: 2 parchment flyleaves

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