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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name Chapman, Christopher, bookbinder, fl 1704-1756 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 2372

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2372
Title:
A Mirror for Recluses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of A Mirror for Recluses, a Middle English translation of the Speculum inclusorum, an early 15th-century rule or guide for male anchorites. A complete copy of the text (the only other in existence) survives in a manuscript sold at Christie's, London, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Harley MS 3334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3334
Title:
Rolandus Capellutus Parmensis, De chirurgia
Scope & Content:
An imperfect copy of the surgical treatise, also known as 'Rolandina', written by Roland of Parma in the early 13th century. The text begins imperfectly with the prologue at (f. 1r): '[asserve]runt et arbori inverse assimulaverunt et a capite quasi a ra/dice simplici inceperunt'; table of conten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

61 folios.

4. Harley MS 3388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3388
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Medical Miscellany; 15th cent., 1st half. Latin and Middle English. Copy. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - a) Practica de omnibus morbis (ff. 1-4v); - b) Rogerius de Parma, Chirurgia (ff. 5-19): see Thorndike-Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Harley MS 3527

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3527
Title:
Scope & Content:
Francesco Rinuccio Aretino, Translation of a Collection of Greek Letters; mid 15th cent. Latin. Copy. The MS. contains the translation into Latin of a collection of Greek letters attributed to Hippocrates and others made by Francesco Rinuccio Aretino (1395-after 1456), also known as Rinuccio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Harley MS 3698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3698
Title:
Bernardus de Gordonio, Practica dicta Lilium medicine
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Opus lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum prope omnium curatione, usually known as Practica dicta Lilium medicine, a summa of medical practice, written between 1303 and 1305 by Bernardus de Gordonio or Bernard de Gordon (d. around 1318-1320), professor of medicine at the univers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

100 folios.

7. 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.

8. Harley MS 3849

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3849
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Composite medical miscellany including: Aegidius de Corbeil (Gilles de Corbeil), De urinis (ff. 2r-45r); Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica (ff. 46r-61v; imperfect); Collection relating to medicine, including works attributed to Urso of Calabria (ff. 62r-77v; imperfect).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

77 folios.