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111. Harley MS 4241

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4241
Title:
Aristotle, Metaphysica
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, Metaphysica. Decoration: Initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1464
Extent:
88 folios.

112. Harley MS 4346

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

68 folios.

113. Harley MS 4347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347
Title:
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
44 folios.

114. Harley MS 4350

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4350
Title:
Astronomical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Various astronomical and calendrical texts including: Robert Grosseteste, De sphera (ff. 4r-15r); Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (ff. 15v-25v); 'Epistula super libello de natura scintillarum' (ff. 25v-29v); Jordanus de Nemore, De plana sphaera (Demonstratio de plana spera; Planispheri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
123 folios.

115. Harley MS 4361

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361
Title:
Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Livre de Sydrac (ff. 7r-97v), preceded by a table of rubrics (ff. 1r-6r). Decoration: 1 foliate initial 'A'(ntens) in red and blue with partial bar border accomodating a marginal portrait of king Bochus, and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 7r). Descenders or partial bar borders wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
97 folios.

116. Harley MS 4486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486
Title:
A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1350-1631
Extent:
148 folios.

117. Harley MS 4735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4735
Title:
Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:
Contents: A commentary on Aristotle's Physica (ff. 1r-74v); Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates (ff. 75r-78r). Decoration: Initial in red at the beginning of the book 1. Space left for initials at the beginning of other books and Nicolaus Lakmann's Formalitates. Paraphs in red and first letters ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 4924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4924
Title:
Thomas Osborne, Treatise on arithmetic
Scope & Content:
A treatise on arithmetic by Thomas Osborne. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript imitates that of printed books. It comprises: A title page with the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I supported by a lion and a dragon and encircled by the Garter, with Elizabeth's initials E R held by ang...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1601-1602
Extent:

1 volume

119. Harley MS 4970

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970
Title:
Aristotle, De animalibus
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, De animalibus (ff. 1r-65r) with an added table of contents (ff. 65v-66r). Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours extending into the margin (f. 1). Initials in blue with pink and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 4r, 7r, 10v, 14r, 17r, 20r, etc.). Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
66 folios.

120. Harley MS 4973

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4973
Title:
Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis (ff. 1r-33v). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing and a partial border in red and blue, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, and 1 in red wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
34 folios.