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31. Harley MS 1684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1684
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
The present manuscript includes: A short treatise relating to urine (f. 1r); Medical recipes, mainly relating to plasters (ff. 2r-4v); Thomas Scellinck of Thienen, Chirurgia (ff. 5r-104r); Medical recipes (f. 104v); Lanfrancus de Mediolanum, Chirurgia parva, 2 books, transl. (ff. 105r-140...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1410-1499
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 1685

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1685
Title:
Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:
Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni (ff. 1r-143v); Chronology of important events in British history from the Creation to the reign of Edward III (ff. 143v-144r). The manuscript also includes: added prayers (ff. 9v, 12v); Figurae Divisionis relating to complexions dominated by humours (f. 103r); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1150-1399
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 1687

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1687
Title:
Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: List of letters of the Hebrew alphabet with Latin translations (f. 1v); Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito (ff. 2r-127r), comprising a note relating to medicine added by a contemporary hand (f. 64r margin); Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1250-1450
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

35. Harley MS 1720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1720
Title:
Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum of Georg Joachim Rheticus, b. 1514, d. 1574) (original name Georg Joachim De Porris, or Von Lauchen), Austrian astronomer and mathematician. An earlier, simplier version of the work was published in 1551 in Leipzig.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1575-1596
Extent:
274 folios.

36. Harley MS 1735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735
Title:
John Crophill, Commonplace Book including astrological prognostications, cookery recipes, medical and alchemical treatises and recipes
Scope & Content:
A composite and miscellaneous volume put together by John Crophill (d. in or after 1485), medical practitioner and bailiff of Wix Priory in Essex. The volume includes: 1. Texts relating to astrology, Thyrtty Days of the Mone (ff. 1r-13v), prognostication, Prophecies of Esdras (ff. 13v-16v), a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1430-1485
Extent:
52 folios.

37. Harley MS 1737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1737
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, with some later, mainly 13th-century glosses (ff. 1r-33r). Imperfect, incipit: 'ulla in re ratio utriusque latitudinis...' Decoration: Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, 1 full-page diagram added at the end (f. 33v). Initials in red or brown, occas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
33 folios.

38. Harley MS 1811

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar with canons, and other astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Leaves from an antiphonary or breviary used as flyleaves (ff. 1r-2v); 2. Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar (ff. 3r-33v); 3. Nicholas of Lynn, abbreviated calendar canons, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...' (ff. 34r-36v); 4. Prognostication text (ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
After 1387-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

39. Harley MS 1914

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1914
Title:
Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae
Scope & Content:
Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae; Imperfect at the end. The Breviarium medicinae or Practica Serapionis is the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona (c.1114-1187) of the Arabic version of a work known as the Small Compendium and originally written in Syriac by Yū...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
133 folios.

40. Harley MS 2269

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2269
Title:
Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:
An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume