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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. 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

4. 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

5. 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