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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, f 44v
Title:: Epistula ad Marcellinum
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Cum te pene omnium bona/rum artium', explicit: 'in agnoscendo varietas frustraretur. Vale'. Published from this manuscript in V. Rose, 'Ueber die Medicina Plinii', Hermes, 8 (1874), 18-66 (p. 38). The text is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 1*r-2*v, 1r
Title:: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Scope & Content:: The text belong to the α branch of the tradition, with interpolations. Rubric mostly effaced (f. 1*r): '….. / Antonius Marcu* Agrippae salutem / Caesari Augusto praestantissimo', prologue incipit: '[O]mnium mortalium sed et iudicibus ipsius / Scitote proximum esse auxilium', explicit: 'redactam ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 1r-44r
Title:: Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
Scope & Content:: The text belongs to the α branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Incipit liber / apulei platonici de medicaminibus herbarum / Apuleius Platonicus Madaurensis Civis suis salutem', prologue incipit: '[E]x pluribus / Paucas vires herbarum et curationes / corporis ad fidem veritatis', explicit: '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 44v-45r
Title:: De taxone liber
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 44v) 'De usu taxonis et aliarum / bestiarum', prologue incipit: 'De taxone quem Latini mele / dicunt Iapartus rex egiptiorum / Octavio suo salutem. Plurimis / exemplis experti sumus virtutes', explicit: 'quidam etiam / melen vocant', text incipit: 'Hunc apprehendens vivo dentes exime ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 45r-50r
Title:: (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions
Scope & Content:: The text belongs to the α branch of the tradition. Rubric added by a later hand (f. 45r) 'De cervo', incipit: 'Ad omnes homines. Cervinum cornu habet vim omnes humo/res siccandi ', explicit (f. 49v) '['De elefante' rubric added by a later hand (f. 49v)]: … faciem suam fricaverit plagas mundabit'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 51r-56v
Title:: Anthimus, De observatione ciborum
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 51r): 'Incipit epistula Antimii viri illustrissimi comitis ad glorio/sum regem francorum Theodericum. De observati/one ciborum', incipit: 'Racio observationis vostre pietatis secundum precepta auctorum medicina/lium', explicit (ff. 56r-56v): 'et raucam vocem / (f. 56v) habent bona sun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 56v-64r
Title:: Gargilius Martialis, Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 56v) 'De Rafano', incipit: 'Rafanum calidam inesse virtutem omnium medicorum opinione compertum est sed et nobis / intellegere de usu eius licet', explicit (f. 64r): 'dato per hanc potionem mi/re ob viam posse. si plusquam necesse sit purget'. Edited in Gargilius Martialis 2002.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 64r-66r
Title:: Theodorus Priscianus, Diaeta, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 64r): 'De natura frumenti chernin', incipit: 'Ordei natura est frigida et humecta. Sucus eius si candidus fuerit / ventrem purgat', explicit: 'servata aqua marina / (f. 66r) bromos non colligitur … ut temperetur vicissitudine eius'. Edition of the text: K. Sudhoff, 'Diaeta Theodori'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 66r-66v
Title:: A text relating to clysters
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 66r): 'De clisteribus', incipit: 'Ad clistrem [sic] quod greci apoteon vocant alii ipodericon id est iniectatorium / per anum', explicit: '[rubric 'Enema ad flegma solvendum'] ... de oleo ovum plenum cunmisce tepidum inicias'. Followed (ff. 66v-67r) by a recipe, rubric: 'Potio ad ova c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 67r-68v
Title:: Additions to bestiary
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 67) 'De Leone et eius remedio', incipit: 'Qui habuerit carnes leonis fantasma non patietur', explicit (f. 68v): '[rubric 'De hyrundine'] … et in oculos mittes aut foris in/ungues probatum est'. The text is listed in Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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