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21. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

23. Harley MS 1009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1009
Title:
William Rede (?), Astronomical tables with canons
Scope & Content:
Tha manuscript includes a series of astronomical tables with canons: William Rede, Canon tabularum (ff. 3r-8r) with his adaptation of the Alphonsine Tables, (ff. 8v-11r); 'Canon tabularum sequencium de equacionibus 12 domorum' (ff. 11v-14v); Table of 'elevationes signorum in circulo directo'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-17th century
Extent:
30 folios.

24. Harley MS 1010

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1010
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany preceded by leaves from a liturgical manuscript (lectionary?) with musical notation (ff. ii recto-ix verso). Texts include: Treatise on urine (ff. 1r-23v); Regimen of health (ff. 23v-32r); Four medical recipes (ff. 32r-32v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1250-1399
Extent:
40 folios.

25. Harley MS 1121

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1121
Title:
Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume

26. Harley MS 1585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585
Title:
Illustrated pharmacopoeial compilation
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of late-antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts: ff. 1v-6v: A table of contents relating to Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber and Pseudo-Apuleius' Herbarium; ff. 6v-9v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem. ff. 10r-12r: Pseudo-Hip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

27. Harley MS 1602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1602
Title:
Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 1605/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/1
Title:
Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1250
Extent:

1 volume

29. Harley MS 1676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1676
Title:
Constantinus Africanus (Constantine the African), Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
A copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of the Kitāb Kāmil ('the complete' -...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
163 folios.

30. Harley MS 1683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1683
Title:
Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis], Collection of lectures on Galen, Hippocrates and Jacobus Sylvius
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of lectures on medical authors by the French physician Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis] (b. 1545, d. 1611) : Table of contents (f. 1v); Lecture on Hippocrates, De natura hominis (ff. 2r-18v); Lecture on Jacobus Sylvius, Anatomen (ff. 19r-40v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume