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551. 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.

552. 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.

553. 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.

554. 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.

555. 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.

556. 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

557. Harley MS 2338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2338
Title:
The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version); a Merlin prophecy (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: The Meditations of the Supper of Our Lord (abridged version). The manuscript contains later additions: f. 28v: A Merlin prophecy, for the year '1436' or more likely '1536', entitled ‘Prophesia Regis Anglie’; imperfect at the end. The hand is seemingly different from ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1536
Extent:
1 volume

558. Harley MS 2342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2342
Title:
Prayer book ('Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book')
Scope & Content:
Prayer book, known as 'Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book'. The manuscript contains prayers extracted from Richard Taverner's translation from the Latin of Wolfgang Capito's Precationes Christianae ad imitationem psalmorum compositae, printed as An epitome of the Psalmes, or briefe meditacons upon th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1539-1554
Extent:

1 volume

559. Harley MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2376
Title:
William Langland, Piers Plowman
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-124r: William Langland, Piers Plowman (the 'C' (N) text). Decoration: Numerous large initials in red ink with purple penwork decoration, with oak leaves in red ink decorating the rubric (f. 1r). Rubric on a scroll drawn in red ink (f. 51r). Parts of the text framed in red in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

560. 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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