Search

Language Latin Subject Science

181. Royal MS 7 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D II
Title:
Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

182. Royal MS 12 D IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 D IV
Title:
A calendar with computus tables; Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of a calendar followed by computus tables and works related to the reckoning of time: Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione. Helperic'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

183. Royal MS 12 E XX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 E XX
Title:
A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio; Galen, De arte curativa ad Glauconem; Pseudo-Galen, Ad Glauconem liber tertius; Liber Aureliani; Liber Esculapii; De podagra; Pseudo-Oribasius, commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorims;Medicina Plinii; Gargilius Martialis, Medicina ex oleribus et pomis; Liber dietarum diversorum medicorum; Excerpt from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; an anonymous Antidotary; and medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-32r: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio and based on an early translation of Hippocrates's work dating to the 6th century, beginning: 'Incipit expositio Aptalionis in .vii. libros Aforismorum Ypocratis. Vita brevis ars autem prolixa, tempus vero velox'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

184. Royal MS 13 A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:
Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

185. Royal MS 15 B XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 B XII
Title:
Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r-59v), written in the 1st half of the 10th century in Central France. This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury in the last quarter of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

186. Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; A collection of Latin verse and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit ceroma?
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 37r-v: An anonymous preface on Bede's De temporum ratione. ff. 38r-39r: Preface of De temporum ratione. ff. 39r-40v: Table of chapters for the De temporum ratione. ff. 40v-78v: Bede, De temporum ratione (imperfect, ends at chapter 29). ff. 79r-102v: A collection of Latin vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

187. Sloane MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 146
Title:
Trilingual medical and botanical recipes; trilingual botanical glossary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript with medical and botanical texts was largely written in the 13th century, but also include a botanical glossary in Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English that has been written in the late 12th century. Contents: ff. 1r-68v: A collection of medical and botanical recipes in Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

188. Sloane MS 263

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 263
Title:
Helperic of Auxerre, De computo; Bede, De duodecim mensibus, Hymnus de anno et mensibus; Priscian, Versus de sideribus; computistical tables and diagrams; an astronomical treatise about constellations and stars
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the computistical treatise known as De computo (On the Computus) by Helperic of Auxerre (fl. c. 900), one of the most popular textbooks on computus of the Middle Ages. The manuscript also contains several astrononical tracts, including the poems De duodecim mensibus (On ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

1 volume

189. Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v
Title:
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect. ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475

190. Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v
Title:
Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 125r-130v: Extracts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636)'s Etymologiae (Etymologies), book 4, chapters 5-7. ff. 131rv-v: Pseudo-Galen, De febribus (On Fevers). ff. 131v-132r: A text on purgation, beginning: 'Hec est purgatio Ypocratis'. ff. 133r-v: A version of the Sphere of Apul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »