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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v
Title:: Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v
Title:: Fragment from Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine, De civitate Dei (City of God), Book 16 chapter 8 to 16. Decoration: A quire signature (f. 2v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 3-75
Title:: Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r–75v: Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum (Commentary on Acts), beginning imperfectly: '[...] postulationis contempneretur auctoritas'. Decoration: Initials highlighted in red (oxidised) or/and yellow. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
Title:: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 76r-123r: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi (On faith in the Holy Trinity and on the incarnation of Christ), preceded by the dedicatory epistle (ff. 76v-78v) and capitula (ff. 78v-80v). ff. 123v-126r: Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem (Invocation...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, f 44v
Title:: Epistula ad Marcellinum
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Cum te pene omnium bona/rum artium', explicit: 'in agnoscendo varietas frustraretur. Vale'. Published from this manuscript in V. Rose, 'Ueber die Medicina Plinii', Hermes, 8 (1874), 18-66 (p. 38). The text is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 1*r-2*v, 1r
Title:: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Scope & Content:: The text belong to the α branch of the tradition, with interpolations. Rubric mostly effaced (f. 1*r): '….. / Antonius Marcu* Agrippae salutem / Caesari Augusto praestantissimo', prologue incipit: '[O]mnium mortalium sed et iudicibus ipsius / Scitote proximum esse auxilium', explicit: 'redactam ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 44v-45r
Title:: De taxone liber
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 44v) 'De usu taxonis et aliarum / bestiarum', prologue incipit: 'De taxone quem Latini mele / dicunt Iapartus rex egiptiorum / Octavio suo salutem. Plurimis / exemplis experti sumus virtutes', explicit: 'quidam etiam / melen vocant', text incipit: 'Hunc apprehendens vivo dentes exime ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 45r-50r
Title:: (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions
Scope & Content:: The text belongs to the α branch of the tradition. Rubric added by a later hand (f. 45r) 'De cervo', incipit: 'Ad omnes homines. Cervinum cornu habet vim omnes humo/res siccandi ', explicit (f. 49v) '['De elefante' rubric added by a later hand (f. 49v)]: … faciem suam fricaverit plagas mundabit'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 51r-56v
Title:: Anthimus, De observatione ciborum
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 51r): 'Incipit epistula Antimii viri illustrissimi comitis ad glorio/sum regem francorum Theodericum. De observati/one ciborum', incipit: 'Racio observationis vostre pietatis secundum precepta auctorum medicina/lium', explicit (ff. 56r-56v): 'et raucam vocem / (f. 56v) habent bona sun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

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