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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 185r-185v
Title:: Epistula
Scope & Content:: Epistula. A medieval text purporting to be a letter from Christ exhorting Christians to preserve the sanctity of Sunday and saints' days, often associated with medical compilations. Incipit: 'Epistula a deo de celo tranmissa in ierusalem. Mandatum Sancti domini diei de celo / venit in ierusalem e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 186r-187v
Title:: Treatise relating to anatomy
Scope & Content:: Treatise relating to anatomy. Incipit: 'Sicut attestat .G. in Tengi volentes accedere ad phisicam primo studendum est in anathomia / Anathomia est interiorum membrorum divisio'. Followed (f. 187v) by a note in Fayreford's hand. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 30 recipes). Incipit: 'Pro dolore dentium vinum et peper / misse'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 1132e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 189r-190v
Title:: Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron), Rogerina minor, excerpts
Scope & Content:: Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron, late 13th century), Rogerina minor, excerpts. Text relating to waters. Incipit: 'Humana natura non minus indiget aquis physicalibus quam aliis medicinis'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v
Title:: Weather prediction from Christmas day and Lunary
Scope & Content:: Weather prediction from Christmas day (f. 191r); Incipit: 'Die dominica si nativitas /dei/ evenerit / hyems bona et ventosa, estas / sicca et vindemie bone'. Other copies of the text in Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii (ff. 36r-36v) and Cotton MS Cleopatra B. ix (ff. 23r-24r), Egerton MS 2852 (ff. 108v-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 193r-193v
Title:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt. A copy of the medieval dream interpretation handbook. This fragment covers the letters A to C. Incipit: 'Qui interpretationem alicuius sompni inquirit / sic faciat'. Copies of the complete text are Additional MS 15236 (ff. 161v-168v); Cotton MS Tiberius A iii (ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 194r-195r
Title:: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum); Imperfect. Rubric 'Epistula Aristotelis ad regem Alexandrum de sanitate / vite per annum', incipit: 'Alexander cum sit hominis corpus corrupti/bile', explicit: 'abundancia non uti n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 195r-195v
Title:: Charms against fevers and tooth pain
Scope & Content:: Charms against fevers and tooth pain. Rubric 'Pro febribus', inc. 'Petrus stabat ante portas ie/rusalem supervenit dominus'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v
Title:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

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