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1. Harley MS 3469

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3469
Title:
Splendor Solis
Scope & Content:
Content: The manuscript contains the alchemical treatise Splendor Solis. Decoration: 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold with full borders. Very large calligraphic initials in gold. Capitals marked in gold. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 2r: The A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1582
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 3734, f 2r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3734, f 2r
Title:
Fragment of a document
Scope & Content:
Includes the bottom portion of a document relating the donation of property to the Cistercian abbey in Stična, near Ljubljana, in 1350. There are three sets of slits in the parchment under the text where seals could have been attached.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1350
Extent:
1 folio.

3. Harley MS 3736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3736
Title:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:
This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475 - c 1525
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r
Title:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:
Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
80 folios.

5. Harley MS 3915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3915
Title:
Collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts on techniques and technology of various arts
Scope & Content:
f. 1v: A recipe for making colours, an extract from the Mappae clavicula. ff. 2r-109v: Theophilus, De diversis artibus. ff. 109v-113v: Heraclius, De coloribus et artibus romanorum. ff. 114r-114v: De temperamento vesice escivi: an extract from a text on book illumination. ff. 114v-115v: De si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1150-1200
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

6. Harley MS 3915, f 146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3915, f 146r
Title:
Medical recipe
Scope & Content:
A medical recipe, incipit: 'Dem die nase vil gepblute, der nem die ayerschal...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 folio.

7. Harley MS 3915, f 150r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3915, f 150r
Title:
Notes
Scope & Content:
Three notes: 1. incipit: 'Contra caducum morbum...'; 2. incipit: 'Immo omnia non mea...'; 3. incipit 'Di waffen.... wie schol ich senden...'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:

1 folio.

8. 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.

9. Harley MS 4986, ff 1r-44r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4986, ff 1r-44r
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
Scope & Content:
The text belongs to the α branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Incipit liber / apulei platonici de medicaminibus herbarum / Apuleius Platonicus Madaurensis Civis suis salutem', prologue incipit: '[E]x pluribus / Paucas vires herbarum et curationes / corporis ad fidem veritatis', explicit: '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:
44 folios.

10. Harley MS 6323

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6323
Title:
Ovid, Hesiod, Oracula Sibyllina
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
8 items