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Language Latin Name Macer Floridus, c 1070-c 1112

1. Harley MS 1742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1742
Title:
Collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Collection of grammatical rules for young students of the Latin language, beginning: 'How mani maner of ways schall thou begynne to make laten and counstru v maner off wayes // The first att the Vocayve case'; written by 'F. Framton' (f. 35r). ff. 12r-38v: Treatise on La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2651

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2651
Title:
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum. The manuscript is a humanistic copy of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs written under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The author is generally identified with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:

44 folios.

3. Harley MS 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353
Title:
Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 4346

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including Macer Floridus and other medical texts including recipes and charms relating to the regimen of health, urine and uroscopy, diagnosis and prognosis; partly imperfect. Contents as follows: 1. Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (ff. 1r-54r); 2. De pon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

68 folios.