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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 18v-22r
Title:: Summa de opiatis, attributed to Petrus Musandinus
Scope & Content:: Summa de opiatis, a treatise on drugs attributed to Petrus Musandinus or Pedro de Musanda (12th century), known as the teacher of Aegidius Corboliensis or Pierre Gilles de Corbeil (1165-1223). Rubric (f. 18v) : 'De opiatis secundum magistrum petrum / demussadat', incipit: 'Omnis medicine opiate ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 22v-31v
Title:: De clisteribus suppositoriis syringis et pessariis, attributed to Petrus Musandinus
Scope & Content:: De clisteribus suppositoriis syringis et pessariis, a treatise relating to laxatives attributed to Petrus Musandinus. Rubric (f. 22v): 'De clisteribus secundum magistrum / petrum de / mussanda', incipit: 'Clisterium quatuor sunt genera / molificativum mordi/ficativum', explicit (f. 31v) : 'vero ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 31v-32v
Title:: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum); Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis (John of Seville) or Johannes (David) Toletanus (12th century). Rubric (f. 31v): 'Incipit epistola aristotilis qui / scripsit ad Alexandrum regem', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 33r-152r
Title:: Gerardus Bituricensis, Glossae super Viaticum Constantini
Scope & Content:: Gerardus Bituricensis, Glossae super Viaticum Constantini. The commentary by a Parisian doctor known as Gerardus Bituricensis or Gerardus Parisiensis (13th century) of the medical summa, traditionally called Viaticum, put together by Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9) on the basis of a sta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 120 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 152v-154r
Title:: Speculum phlebotomiae, potionis et medicinae exercendae
Scope & Content:: Speculum phlebotomiae, potionis et medicinae exercendae. Title (f. 152v) : 'Incipit speculum flebothomie, pocionis et medicinis exercende secundum ypocratem Rasyn / et Avicenna', incipit: 'Flebothomia est initium sanitatis', explicit (f. 153v): 'signa kalendas'. The text is followed (f. 154r) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 155v-159r
Title:: Astrological diagrams
Scope & Content:: Astrological diagrams in colours including two volvelles (ff. 155v-156r) and a diagram showing moon phases (f. 157v). Bloodletting-zodiac man (ff. 158v-159r). The illustration combines the features of a bloodletting man with those of a zodiac man. Captions in Middle English written in alternati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 164r-175r
Title:: Calendrical tables
Scope & Content:: Calendrical tables. The tables include a calendar of English provenance (ff. 164r-169v), tables of solar and lunar eclipses for the years 1409-1440 and 1410-1443 respectively (ff. 170r-170v), a solar cycle, a table of movable feasts (f. 171v), astrological tables (ff. 172r-174v), and a table on ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 175v-177v
Title:: Pythagorean sphere with prognostication texts and diagrams
Scope & Content:: The Pythagorean sphere, a diagram of the sphere of life and death used in prognostications, preceded by the title 'Sphera Pictagore' (f. 175v), and followed by explanatory texts: a text in verse, 5 lines, incipit (f. 175v): 'Collige per numerum quicquid cupis esse probandum', explicit 'Quod ret...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 178r-222v
Title:: Roger de Baron, Practica medicinae
Scope & Content:: Roger de Baron, Practica medicinae. The text is traditionally ascribed to Rogerius de Barone or Roger Baron (late 13th century) with the title 'Practica', or 'Rogerina maior'. Rubric (f. 178r): 'Hic incipit major Rogerius', incipit: 'Sicut ab antiquis auto/ribus habemus et eorundem / ratio commu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719 ff 222v-226r
Title:: Roger de Baron, Parva summa
Scope & Content:: Roger de Baron, Parva summa. The text is traditionally ascribed to Rogerius de Barone with the title 'Parva summa', or 'Rogerina minor'. Rubric (f. 222v): 'Hic incipit parva summa ma/gistri rogeri', incipit: 'Cum medicinalis scientie due / partes integrales sunt theorica et / practica', explicit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 5 folios.

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