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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Name Placitus, Sextus, fl c 370, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/25399669

1. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 11–85
Title:
Old English Illustrated Herbal; Medicina de Quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
These folios, sometimes called the Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia, contain an illustrated Herbal, comprising Latin texts translated into Old English, along with texts called Medicina de quadrupedibus, also translated into Old English. These folios were copied in the first quarter of the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

2. Harley MS 4986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4986
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The compilation is a copy of a late-antique and early medieval corpus of pharmacopeial texts. Contents includes: 1. Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 1*r-2*r, 1r); 2. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

84 folios.

3. Harley MS 5294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The manuscript is a compilation of late antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts. Contents as follows: 1. Notes on humours, partly in figures of division (f. 1r); 2. Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal, ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 6258 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, translations and recipes. Contents as follows: 1. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium (ff. 1r-44r); 2. Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes and remedies in Old English and Latin (ff. 44v-51r); 3. Peri didaxeon (ff. 51v-66v)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Sloane MS 1975

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1975
Title:
Medical and herbal miscellany
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–7r: Table of contents. Preface, ‘In hoc continentur libri quatuor medicine ypocratis. platonis. apoliensis urbis. de diversis herbis. Sexti papiri. placiti. ex animalibus. et ex diversis avibus. Idem ex libris dioscoridis. ex herbis semininis. ut quis voluerit. si pro qua fuerit querere c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume