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Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
- Record Id:
- 041-001945649
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001945628
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002022.0x000273
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
- Title:
- Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
- Scope & Content:
-
Sixth unit includes:
Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r);
Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r);
Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth, against toothache, followed by devotional texts; imperfect (ff. 213r-213v, 213v-215v):
- incipit: 'Charme pur festre e pur can/cre e pur gute. Dunc de primes die lamalade a celui ki deit garir';
- incipit: 'Pur tuz felunz tuer: In nomine Patris et Filii, Spiritus Sancti amen Jo vus cunjur mau felun'; rubric 'pur sanc e/stauncher',
- incipit: 'Charme pur estancher saunc. La verei dame seit'; inc. 'Ad ungulam que in oculo est. Hec verba in pergameno scrip[tae]';
- incipit: 'Ki ne pot dor/mir';
- incipit: 'pur la mere maris';
- incipit: 'Ad febres occidendas. Hoc scribe in pergamena Christe natus';
- incipit: 'Pur dolur de denz. Pernez plantaine'; inc. (f. 213v) '[S]I acune femme travaille de enfaunter'.
Almost all printed in Hunt 1990.
Decoration:
Initials (2-4 lines) in red throughout; rubric in red; sentence initials (ff. 209r-215v) touched in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001945628
041-001945649 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 273 : Compilation of religious and secular texts
Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v : Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0272]/040-001945628[0006]/041-001945649
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 12 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_273 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
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