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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 5051
Title:: Extracts partly compiled by Robert Yeamans (d.1665) (see Fontes p.365) from Greek and Latin authors. The authors extracted are Cicero (ff. 3-4v, 28-31v, 101-103v), Persius (ff. 31-32, 103v-104), Terence (ff. 5-6v, 33-45v, 104v-106v), Horace (ff. 6v-7, 46, 107), Cyprian (ff. 83-87), Plutarch (ff. 8-27v, 46v-82v), and St John Chrysostom (ff. 88-100v, 107v-114) using H. Savile's 1610-1612 edition of Chrysostom.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5059
Title:: Treatise by Metrophanes Kritopoulos on the Eastern Orthodox Church
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Metrophanes Kritopoulos on the Eastern Orthodox Church, and other notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1617-1623
Extent:: 25 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5059, ff 25-25v
Title:
Scope & Content:: English and Latin notes on Romans 13:14, inscribed 'Mr Uinett (sic) Mart. 1617'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Mar 1617
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5086
Title:: Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:: This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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