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351. Harley MS 2558, ff 167r-172v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 167r-172v
Title:
Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium (see ff. 72v-124v); Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: with figure of division (f. 167r) 'Urina fit multa'. The notes include: (a) three excerpts from the Doom of Urine in Middle English, incipit respectively (f. 168v) 'Urine of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
6 folios.

352. Harley MS 2558, ff 173r-174r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 173r-174r
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (c. 40 recipes). Imperfect. Incipit: 'Wehose hauet heuedache oþer torment in hys heued me/diane per fore. Make hym ley3e of verveyne aut of be/toyne oþer of filles oþer of wermod and þere with wasch'. Followed (f. 174v) by a recipe in Latin, incipit: 'Pro apostema'. Listed in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
2 folios.

353. Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
15 folios.

354. Harley MS 2558, ff 185r-185v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 185r-185v
Title:
Epistula
Scope & Content:
Epistula. A medieval text purporting to be a letter from Christ exhorting Christians to preserve the sanctity of Sunday and saints' days, often associated with medical compilations. Incipit: 'Epistula a deo de celo tranmissa in ierusalem. Mandatum Sancti domini diei de celo / venit in ierusalem e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

355. Harley MS 2558, ff 186r-187v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 186r-187v
Title:
Treatise relating to anatomy
Scope & Content:
Treatise relating to anatomy. Incipit: 'Sicut attestat .G. in Tengi volentes accedere ad phisicam primo studendum est in anathomia / Anathomia est interiorum membrorum divisio'. Followed (f. 187v) by a note in Fayreford's hand. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

356. Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 188r-188v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (c. 30 recipes). Incipit: 'Pro dolore dentium vinum et peper / misse'. 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 1968), p. 1132e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

357. Harley MS 2558, ff 189r-190v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 189r-190v
Title:
Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron), Rogerina minor, excerpts
Scope & Content:
Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron, late 13th century), Rogerina minor, excerpts. Text relating to waters. Incipit: 'Humana natura non minus indiget aquis physicalibus quam aliis medicinis'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
2 folios.

358. Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v
Title:
Weather prediction from Christmas day and Lunary
Scope & Content:
Weather prediction from Christmas day (f. 191r); Incipit: 'Die dominica si nativitas /dei/ evenerit / hyems bona et ventosa, estas / sicca et vindemie bone'. Other copies of the text in Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii (ff. 36r-36v) and Cotton MS Cleopatra B. ix (ff. 23r-24r), Egerton MS 2852 (ff. 108v-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
3 folios.

359. Harley MS 2558, ff 193r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 193r-193v
Title:
Somniale Danielis, excerpt
Scope & Content:
Somniale Danielis, excerpt. A copy of the medieval dream interpretation handbook. This fragment covers the letters A to C. Incipit: 'Qui interpretationem alicuius sompni inquirit / sic faciat'. Copies of the complete text are Additional MS 15236 (ff. 161v-168v); Cotton MS Tiberius A iii (ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

360. Harley MS 2558, ff 194r-195r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 194r-195r
Title:
Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum); Imperfect. Rubric 'Epistula Aristotelis ad regem Alexandrum de sanitate / vite per annum', incipit: 'Alexander cum sit hominis corpus corrupti/bile', explicit: 'abundancia non uti n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
2 folios.