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1. Burney MS 350

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 350
Title:
Collection of Medical Texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 2ra-128vb: John, son of Serapion (Yahya ibn Sarayum), Breviarium medicinae translated by Gerard of Cremona (incomplete, about one gathering missing: breakes off at f. 83r of the printed text in Practica Johannis Serapionis dicta Breviarium (Venice 1505).) ff. 129ra-132rb: Serapion, Synonyma (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
end of the 14th century - beginning of the15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

2. Burney MS 360

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 360
Title:
Philosophical miscellany
Scope & Content:
A collection of popularworks on moral philosophy from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Contents: f. 1r: blank f. 2r: Ownershipnotes. f. 2v: Table ofcontents ff. 3r-37r: John ofWales, Breviloquium de quatuor virtutibusantiquorum, begins ‘Quoniammisericordia et veritas custodiunt regem. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
One volume

3. Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244
Title:
A collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains a number of scientific and medical texts. Among them, there is the earliest surviving copy of the De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions) by Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC) and the only extant copy of the chapter entitled...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

4. Harley MS 218

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 218
Title:
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Harley MS 219

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 219
Title:
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2411
Title:
George Ripley's Bosome Book
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the personal alchemical notebook of the Bridlington canon and alchemist George Ripley (d. c. 1490), that the Elizabethan alchemist Samuel Norton (b. 1548, d. 1621), the great-grandson of the renowned alchemist Thomas Norton (b. c. 1433, d. c. 1513), claimed to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume

7. Sloane MS 2030, ff 3-30, 95-135

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2030, ff 3-30, 95-135
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum; Solinus, De Mirabilibus Mundi; Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia; De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates; various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). ff. 9v-10r: Divisio Scientiarum (The Division of the Sciences), beginning: ‘Ut dicit Boecius in commento super Por[phyrio]’. ff. 11r-30r: Pseudo-Ptolemy (fl. 10th century), Centiloquium (One H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Sloane MS 2030