Harleian Collection

English politician (1661-1724)

16th-century English historian and antiquarian

canon

Greek New Testament manuscript

Eponymous Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday

thumb|First page of Lacnunga, beginning Ƿit heafodwræce ("against headache") Lacnunga is a collection of miscellaneous Anglo-Saxon medical texts and prayers, written mainly in Old English and Latin. The title Lacnunga, an Old English word meaning "remedies", is not in the manuscript: it was given to the collection by its first editor, Oswald Cockayne, in the nineteenth century. It is found, following other medical texts, in the British Library's Harley MS 585, a codex probably compiled in England in the late tenth or early eleventh century. Many of its herbal remedies are also found, in varian

British politician, bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts (1689-1741)

manuscript

collection of Welsh genealogies uniquely preserved in Harley MS 3859

manuscript collection at the British Library

manuscript

10th century manuscript in the British Library

manuscript

British antiquary and palaeographer; (1735-1803)

collection of extracts from the Gospels and prayers