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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4346, ff 1r-54r
Title:: Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 54 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 63r-77v
Title:: ?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum (fragment)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 221, and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 15 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 145v-146r
Title:: Medical and chemical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical and chemical recipes, incipit : 'Dentifricium .r. pumicis...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6310, ff 1-5
Title:: Johann Georg Atzenhover, De actionibus mixtis, Sedan 1595. Latin. Printed, with a few MS additions. Imperfect, comprising only the title-page and pp.169-176 (disputatio xix)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 36-94
Title:: Vitae Sanctorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Caelesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'. ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St St...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 119v-122r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'C' in gold and colours at the beginning of the text; with a guide letter 'e' and a letter 'e' correcting the initial in the margin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 10r-11v
Title:: Table of contents of the herbal
Scope & Content:: Table of contents of the herbal (see ff. 13r-64v); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The table lists the ailments from head to toe with the name of the relevant remedial herb. Incipit: 'Pro dolore capitis capitulo absinthium'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Sci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

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