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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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 56v-64r
Title:: Gargilius Martialis, Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 56v) 'De Rafano', incipit: 'Rafanum calidam inesse virtutem omnium medicorum opinione compertum est sed et nobis / intellegere de usu eius licet', explicit (f. 64r): 'dato per hanc potionem mi/re ob viam posse. si plusquam necesse sit purget'. Edited in Gargilius Martialis 2002.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 64r-66r
Title:: Theodorus Priscianus, Diaeta, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 64r): 'De natura frumenti chernin', incipit: 'Ordei natura est frigida et humecta. Sucus eius si candidus fuerit / ventrem purgat', explicit: 'servata aqua marina / (f. 66r) bromos non colligitur … ut temperetur vicissitudine eius'. Edition of the text: K. Sudhoff, 'Diaeta Theodori'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 66r-66v
Title:: A text relating to clysters
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 66r): 'De clisteribus', incipit: 'Ad clistrem [sic] quod greci apoteon vocant alii ipodericon id est iniectatorium / per anum', explicit: '[rubric 'Enema ad flegma solvendum'] ... de oleo ovum plenum cunmisce tepidum inicias'. Followed (ff. 66v-67r) by a recipe, rubric: 'Potio ad ova c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 67r-68v
Title:: Additions to bestiary
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 67) 'De Leone et eius remedio', incipit: 'Qui habuerit carnes leonis fantasma non patietur', explicit (f. 68v): '[rubric 'De hyrundine'] … et in oculos mittes aut foris in/ungues probatum est'. The text is listed in Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 68v-80r
Title:: Medical recipes (c. 170 recipes).
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 68v) 'Confectio cidonii medicinalium ad digerendum et ad stomachum dirigendum', incipit: 'Citonus purgatis accipe liber .ii. citonia namque ipsa infundis ad vesperam in aceto'; rubric (ff. 79r-79v) 'Potio aristolabea quam composuit aristolabius rex … efficacissime emendare non dubitat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5098
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 70 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of three parts produced in different periods and locations that originally formed independent manuscripts (ff. 1r-83v; 84r-146v; 147r-183v). Contents: Pars oculi sacerdotis (ff. 1r-50v); Notes in English and Latin (ff. 51r-52v); Verba secundum modum alphabeticum,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1524
Extent:: 183 folios.

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