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81. Harley MS 3719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3719
Title:
Collection of astronomical, calendrical, medical and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:
A composite and miscellaneous volume including: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1v, 4v) referring to the present volume, and a table of contents relating to Gerardus Bituricensis' commentary on the Viaticum (ff. 2r-3r) from a different manuscript; 2. An astrological text (ff. 3v-4v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1275-1540
Extent:

283 folios.

82. Harley MS 3734

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3734
Title:
Toledan tables
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Table for calculating dates (f. 1v); Fragment of a document 1350 (f. 2r); Diagrams of constellations (f. 2v); Toledan tables (ff. 3r-38v); ‘De proiectionibus radiorum planetorum’ (f. 39r-39v); Toledan tables (ff. 40r-41v); Table for calculating dates (f. 42r). Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:

42 folios.

83. Harley MS 3735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3735
Title:
Treatises on astronomy and computus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Treatise on the Zodiac signs (imperfect) (f. 3r); Bede, De natura rerum (extract) (ff. 3v-5r); Treatise on calendar (f. 5v); Robert Grosseteste, Kalendarium (ff. 6r-12r); Tabula Gerlandi and other computistical tables (ff. 12v-15v); Notes on measurements (f. 16r); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1264-1293
Extent:

106 folios.

84. Harley MS 3736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3736
Title:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:
This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475 - c 1525
Extent:

1 volume

85. Harley MS 3737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3737
Title:
Alexander Neckam, De naturis rerum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Alexander Neckham, De naturis rerum, with added glosses including a passage from P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses and Claudianus De phenicae (f. 31r). Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red, with pen-flourishing and penwork decoration including foliate motifs (f. 2r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1180-c 1200
Extent:

Parchment codex

86. Harley MS 3744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744
Title:
Avicenna, Canon medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains books I, II, V, and IV of the medical summa by Ibn Sina, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (d. 1037), known in the West as Avicenna, in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis or Gerard of Cremona (circa 1113/4-1187). The volume is made up of two separate codicological ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

154 folios.

87. Harley MS 3745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3745
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany containing Latin translations of medical treatises originally written in Arabic: 1. Pseudo-Serapion (Ibn Wāfid), Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus (ff. 1r-74r); 2. Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae (ff. 75r-158v); 3. Pseudo-Mesue, C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

190 folios.

88. Harley MS 3748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3748
Title:
Galen, Opera
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical works by the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (c. 130-200), translated into Latin partly by Gerard of Cremona. The manuscript contains: De crisis (ff. 1r-24v); De criticis diebus (ff. 24v-42r); De ingenio sanitatis, translated by Gerard of Cremona (ff. 42r-112v)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:
210 folios.

89. Harley MS 3757

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3757
Title:
Avicenna, Canon Medicinae, Book 3
Scope & Content:
The volume contains book 3 of the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037) in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona) (c. 1113/4-1187). Rubric (f. 3r) 'Dictio prima tertii libri canonis in medicina / de universis egritudinibus ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:

246 folios.

90. Harley MS 3799

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3799
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna Canon Medicinae, Book 1, Fen I
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the first volume of the 11-volume set containing the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458) on the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona) (c. 1113/4-1187). T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475
Extent:

335 folios.