Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 498 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 67r-68v
Title:: Additions to bestiary
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 67) 'De Leone et eius remedio', incipit: 'Qui habuerit carnes leonis fantasma non patietur', explicit (f. 68v): '[rubric 'De hyrundine'] … et in oculos mittes aut foris in/ungues probatum est'. The text is listed in Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 68v-80r
Title:: Medical recipes (c. 170 recipes).
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 68v) 'Confectio cidonii medicinalium ad digerendum et ad stomachum dirigendum', incipit: 'Citonus purgatis accipe liber .ii. citonia namque ipsa infundis ad vesperam in aceto'; rubric (ff. 79r-79v) 'Potio aristolabea quam composuit aristolabius rex … efficacissime emendare non dubitat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4987
Title:: Visio Tnugdali; Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes; Regula Beati Augustini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitiones; Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 and 1; Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini;Pope Innocent III, Liber de contemptu mundi; Libellus de septem artibus philosophiae coelestis; Ambrose, De Virginitate
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts that were copied by a single hand. Its contents strongly resemble those of Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 109 [CIX], as described by Henry Octavius Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus (Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4988
Title:: Reports in the Court of the Queen's Bench
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Reports in the Court of the Queen's Bench, 21-34 Elizabeth [1578/1579-1591/1592]; written in Law French.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1578-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

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