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731. Harley MS 581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 581
Title:
A catalogue of publications by King and Parliament, 1640-1667
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume, by Richard Smith. A Catalogue of such Ordinances, Orders, Remonstrances, Declarations, Proclamations, Articles, Messages, Answers, and other passages which have been printed and published by authority from His Majesty and from either House of Parliament, from the beginni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1667
Extent:
1 volume

732. Harley MS 582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 582
Title:
Michaël Eytzinger, Mariae Stuartae, Reginae Scotiae, Historia Tragica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Michaël Eytzinger [Michael von Aitzing] (b. c. 1530, d. 1598), Mariae Stuartae, Reginae Scotiae, Historia Tragica.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590-c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

733. Harley MS 583

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 583
Title:
Collection of justices' charges
Scope & Content:
Manuscript collection of justices’ charges, in law French and English, with some brief legal arguments on poisoning, treason, etc. ff. 1-6r: Sir John Doderidge’s first charge to the Grand Jury of Middlesex. Hilary Term, 17 James I. f. 6v-8r: Arraignment of Williams, barrister of the Middle Templ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
1610-1642
Extent:

1 volume

734. Harley MS 584

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 584
Title:
‘The Kings Right of Indulgence in Spirituall Matters; with the Equity thereof; Asserted by one of his Faithfull Subjects, A Protestant’
Scope & Content:
Octavo manuscript volume, containing a transcription of a work by Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, published in London in 1688 with the title ‘The King’s Right of Indulgence in Spiritual Matters, with the Equity thereof, Asserted by A Person of Honour, and Eminent Minister of State lately Dece...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 17th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

735. Harley MS 585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585
Title:
Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:
Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

736. Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
101 folios.

737. Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

738. Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:
A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

739. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:
Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
63 folios.

740. Harley MS 586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 586
Title:
Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts. The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century. The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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