Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Digitised Content: Yes (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 79r-92v
Title:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis; Rubric: 'Incipit liber Dioscoridis. In hoc / enim libro continentur herbe fe/minee numero sexaginta una / utilissime pro usu medicine. cuius / canones subter scripti sunt. / Prime nomen herbe hecynum', incipit: 'Hec autem herba facit ad he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1602
Title:: Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/1
Title:: Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/2
Title:: A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1605/3
Title:: The Forme of Cury (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/2). This part of the manuscript contains an imperfect copy of a Middle English collection of cookery recipes known as The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking). The te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1390-early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1613
Title:: Collection of Greek ecclesiastical hymns: kekragaria, anastasima, hexapsalmi, megalynaria, cherubica, eothina of the Emperor Leo, with late Byzantine notation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1641
Title:: Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1585-1586
Scope & Content:: Accounts made by Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595), courtier and Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber. From the Feast of St Michael, 27 Elizabeth I, to the Feast of St Michael, 28 Elizabeth I, i.e. 29 September 1585-29 September 1586. f. 1r: Title: ‘Sommes of money Receyved by Sir ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 September 1585-29 September 1586
Extent:: 1 volume. Bound with Harley MS 1642.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1642
Title:: Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, 1593-1594
Scope & Content:: Accounts made by Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595), courtier and Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber. From the Feast of St Michael, 35 Elizabeth I, to the Feast of St Michael, 36 Elizabeth I, i.e. 29 September 1593-29 September 1594. f. 1r: Title: ‘ Somes of monye receyved by the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 September 1593-29 September 1594
Extent:: 1 volume. Bound with Harley MS 1641.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1644
Title:: Accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage, Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, Michaelmas 1581-Michaelmas 1582, with the Queen's New Year cash payments, 1582
Scope & Content:: These are the accounts of Sir Thomas Heneage (b. in or before 1532, d. 1585) as Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber for the year Michaelmas 23 Elizabeth-Michaelmas 24 Elizabeth (i.e 29 Sep 1581-29 Sep 1582). A rich source for the array of officers paid by Heneage for the necessary functioning of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1581-1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1647
Title:: Thomas Busshe, A ledger book for expenses made for the construction of Sandgate Castle by Henry VIII (Volume 1)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: ‘The fyrst. the iide. iiide. iiiith. vth. vith. viith. viiith. and the .ixth. boke of the leger of the Workes of the Kynges Castell at Sandgate in the tyme of Thomas Corkes and Rychard Keys Esquyres Commyssioners there [...]’. f. 2*recto: A Latin inscription: ‘Castrum dom...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1540
Extent:: 1 volume

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