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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2510, ff 136r-167v
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica.
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica. Decoration: Large zoomorphic initial 'I'(n) dandis of a bird in red ink on green background, at the beginning of the text. Initials in red or green. Tables and diagrams in red and green ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 31 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 227 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 12v
Title:: De saporibus et gradibus
Scope & Content:: De saporibus et gradibus (culinary recipe); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Title 'De saporibus et gradibus', incipit: 'Novem sunt species saporum'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 151v
Title:: Alchemical treatise
Scope & Content:: An alchemical treatise; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: 'Thesasauro [sic] nomine ponite intentionem vestram ad medicinam / alicui thesasauro'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 166r
Title:: Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development
Scope & Content:: Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development. Title (added later) 'De conceptione et formatione embryi', incipit: 'Omnibus horis quibus connubit homo omni muliere'. Another copy in Harley MS 3383 (f. 77r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 166v
Title:: Two diagrams of the female hand for prognostication and one charm against toothache
Scope & Content:: Two diagrams of the female hand for prognostication and one charm against toothache. Charm rubric 'Oracio pro dolore dentium', incipit: 'Virgo mater egregia pro nobis appollonea funde preces ad dominum ne pro reatu'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 225v
Title:: Medical recipe
Scope & Content:: Medical recipe. Title (in the upper margin; 15th century) 'Ad faciendum pillulas', incipit: 'Ad conficiendum pillulas medicinales / Elera'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 227v
Title:: Weather prognostications; proverbs; Synonyma Abuali
Scope & Content:: Weather prognostications and proverbs. The text include the prognostications listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 914h; its elect...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v
Title:: Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms
Scope & Content:: Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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