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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5233, ff 1v-10v
Title:: Statutes, ordinances, and oaths
Scope & Content:: ff. 1v-5v: An ordinance, incipit: 'H. Custodibus pacis omne ac Iustitie omnis… Quandam ordinacionem in ultimo parliamento nostro apud Westmisterum quarto die Novembris ultimo preterito tento de avisamento et assensu dominorum spiritualium et temporalium…vobis scripti facimus in hec verba: item t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-c 1461
Extent:: 10 folios, followed by 18 blank leaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5233, ff 11r-339r
Title:: Nova Statuta
Scope & Content:: Nova Statuta including statutes for the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377) (ff. 11r-140v), Richard II (r. 1377-1399) (ff. 141r-218r), Henry IV (r. 1399-1413) (ff. 219r-265v), Henry V (r. 1413-1422) (ff. 265v-289v), to 15 Henry VI (1336) (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471) (ff. 289v-338v). This portion of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1436
Extent:: 328 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, f 1r
Title:: Notes on humours, partly in figures of division.
Scope & Content:: Also includes a series of ownership inscriptions (see provenance).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, f 59v
Title:: Johannitius, Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni, excerpt, in the Latin translation by Marcus of Toledo. Imperfect.
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Medicina dividitur in duas partes id est in theoricam et practicam. Quarum theorica / dividitur in tria .id est. in contemplationem naturalium rerum et non naturalium / quae earum que sunt extra naturam. Ex quibus egritudinem scientia procedit cum ipse naturales res extra cursum / suum ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 1v-6v
Title:: Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 1v) 'Incipiunt capitula de herbis mascu/linis .c. xxxi. Per singula nomina', incipit: 'Herba vetonica virtutes habet / .xlvi.', explicit (f. 6v): 'cxlii. Herba Mandragora masculinis virtutes habet .vii. … malitia in domo', with English names of herbs occasionally added by a 15th-centur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 7r-8v
Title:: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Scope & Content:: The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 7r): 'Nomen herbe vettonica', incipit: 'Omoeos. Cestros. Alii Cyroae. Tusci vocant / Indicem', explicit: 'Cuius virtutes infra scripte sunt', prologue incipit: 'Haec herba vettonica / nascitur in pratis ... hoc incantatis mundus ante s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 8v-43v
Title:: Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
Scope & Content:: The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 8v): 'Incipit aliud herbarium Apulei Platonis eiusdem epistula platonis / ad cives suos. De herba Plantaginis quantas virtutes habeat', prologue incipit: 'Apulius Platon ad cives suos. Ex pluribus paucas vires herbarum et cura-/tiones ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 36 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 43v-58r
Title:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (71 chapters)
Scope & Content:: Rubric 'Incipit liber medicine Dioscoridis ex herbis femininis numero .lxxi. per / singula nomina. Nomen herbe Afrise frigida vocatur', with chapter number in the margin '[cx]lii.', incipit: 'Nascitur in montuosis et lapidosis locis et / arenosis solia', explicit: '[rubric 'Nomen herbe Aperine',...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Ad ficum cancrum et ad fistulam. Accipe nigras fabas et caprina stercora'. This copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 19...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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