ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
Le livre de Boece de Consolacion, Book 1, with prologues and table of contents. This is the first volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in L...
Contents: This is the second volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Contents: This is the third volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
Contents: This is the fourth volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Contents: This is the fifth volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
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...
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (imperfect)
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A 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 now generally identified with the French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire whose name is mentioned in anothe...
The text includes excerpts from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, Book 16, 25-26. Incipit: 'Pondera medicinalium signorum conati sumus / narrare', explicit: 'Explicit opusculum'. See W. M. Lindsay, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum libri, 2 vols (Oxford, 1911). See also J. ...