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1021. Harley MS 4970, ff 1*r-1*v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970, ff 1*r-1*v
Title:
Flyleaf, original pastedown
Scope & Content:
The flyleaf includes a text in a 14th-century English hand, incipit: 'Mater mellenius...'; and 16th or 17th-century pen trials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
1 folio.

1022. Harley MS 4970, ff 1r-65r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970, ff 1r-65r
Title:
Aristotle, De animalibus
Scope & Content:
The title 'Liber de animalibus' is inscribed in a 14th-century hand (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
65 folios.

1023. Harley MS 4970, ff 65v-66r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970, ff 65v-66r
Title:
Table of contents
Scope & Content:
A table of contents in a 14th-century English hand, unfinished: contains only chapters of book 1 and ends with 'capitula secundi libri', although the manuscript does not contain the division in chapters. Both folios also include 16th or 17th century pen trials and notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
2 folios; f 66 is an original pastedown.

1024. Harley MS 4971, ff 1, 129-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff 1, 129-131
Title:
Aristotle, De anima
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 129–131: Fragments of Aristotle (translated by James of Venice), De anima, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Decoration: A 4-line puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 131r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1025. Harley MS 4971, ff 4-41

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff 4-41
Title:
Grammatical and legal tracts, letters and documents
Scope & Content:
f. 4r: Guide to French pronunciation. ff. 4r–6v: Orthographica Gallica (sometimes attributed to Thomas Sampson), with running commentary in Anglo-Norman on Latin rules and vocabulary lists (Dean 1999, nos. 287, 300). ff. 7r–9r: Outline of the responsibilites of a clerk of a manorial household,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1026. Harley MS 4971, ff. 42-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff. 42-92
Title:
Legal texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 42r–65v: Legal formulary compiled at Bury St Edmunds. ff. 66r–92v: Statutes for years 11 to 13 of the reign of Richard II (1387–90).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1027. Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4971, ff 93-128
Title:
Le Manuel des pechiez
Scope & Content:
ff. 93r–127v: William of Waddington, Le Manuel des pechiez (after f. 120v, 1305 lines are missing). Includes an inserted sermon in 122 stanzas (f. 123v), ‘Deu le omnipotent’ (Dean 199, nos. 635, 599). f. 127v: Names of knights of the Round Table, from Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide, added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1028. Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v
Title:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani
Scope & Content:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani or Tereoperica (from the title given in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11219, ff. 42r-103v) is an anonymous therapeutic manual in Latin that was put together from Latin sources (some of which can be traced to Greek originals) in late antiquity or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
72 folios.

1029. Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v
Title:
Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines)
Scope & Content:
The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
42 folios.

1030. Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v
Title:
Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
6 folios.

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