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701. Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v
Title:
Livre de Sydrac
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1280-c 1300
Extent:
90 folios.

702. Harley MS 4486, ff 1r-67r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486, ff 1r-67r
Title:
Treatise on alchemy and medicine
Scope & Content:
Copied from the original dedicated to baron de Tracy (see f. 1r), first chapter: Secret compendium ou Memorial final en forme de Recapitulation sur mes precedents devis et chapitres, incipit: 'Preface dicel livre de chapitre premier. Noble de preux chevallier en qui toute bonte gist...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1631
Extent:
67 folios + 2 unfoliated leaves at the end.

703. Harley MS 4486, ff 69r-146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486, ff 69r-146r
Title:
Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Large puzzle initial in blue and red with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text (f. 69r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, including foliate motifs (when the page contains several initials, the pen-flourishing joins together to form a continuous border along t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
77 folios.

704. Harley MS 4735, ff 1r-74v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4735, ff 1r-74v
Title:
Commentary on Aristotle, Physica
Scope & Content:
A commentary on eight books of Aristotle's Physica.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
74 folios.

705. Harley MS 4735, ff 75r-78r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4735, ff 75r-78r
Title:
Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:
The Formalitates by Nicolaus Lakmann (b. 1415, d. 1479), a German Franciscan theologian, composed in 1442.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

706. 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.

707. 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.

708. 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.

709. 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.

710. 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.