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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1582
Title:: State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:: This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1553-1596
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1584
Title:: A collection of English letters concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628; Charles Cornwallis, The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry; A True and Just Relation of Major-General Sir Thomas Morgans Progress in France and Flanders with the Six Thousand English in the Yeares 1657 and 1658
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-204v A collection of drafts and copies of letters with instructions to various addressees concerning foreign state affairs, dated to 1625-1628. ff. 205r-229v: Charles Cornwallis (d. 1629), The Life and Death of Our Late Noble Prince Henry. ff. 230r-240v: Anonymous, A True an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1625-1658
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585
Title:: Illustrated pharmacopoeial compilation
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a compilation of late-antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts: ff. 1v-6v: A table of contents relating to Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber and Pseudo-Apuleius' Herbarium; ff. 6v-9v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem. ff. 10r-12r: Pseudo-Hip...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 1v-6v
Title:: Table of contents
Scope & Content:: Table of contents relating to the herbals attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 13v-16v) and Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium or De medicaminibus herbarum liber (ff. 16v-58r). Prologue incipit: 'In hoc continentur libri quatuor me/dicine ypocratis. platonis. apo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 6v-9v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem; Rubric '[D]e quatuor hu/moribus ex quibus / constat humanum / corpus', incipit: 'Quatuor / humores / sunt in humano / corpore. idest san/guis. flegma. cole/ra rubea. colera ni/gra. Hij humores / sunt commixti', explicit: 'id est / lassitudo. vel d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 10r-12r
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate); incipit: 'Ypochrates mecennati suo salutem / Libellum quem tibi roganti promisi om/ni cura adhibita', explicit: 'sanus transiges omne / tempus etatis nec medicis indige/bis'. Other copies are Additional MS 8928 (ff. 25r-26r), Ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 12v-13v
Title:: Precatio Terrae and Precatio omnium herbarum
Scope & Content:: Precatio Terrae, prayers to the earth goddess and herbs; incipit: 'Dea sancta tellus. Rerum nature / parens que cuncta generas', explicit: 'ut hoc mihi tua maiestas prestet; quod te supplex rogo'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter ofthe 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 13v-58r
Title:: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber and Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium or De medicaminibus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Two herbals written continuously as one text: 1. ff. 13v-16v: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber. The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Prologue incipit: 'Antoni musus mecennati Agrip/pe salutem. Cesari augusto / praestantissimo omnium mor/talium se et iudicibus ipsius....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 45 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 58r-78v
Title:: De taxone and (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus
Scope & Content:: 1. De taxone (ff. 58r-58v). The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 58r): 'Incipit Epystola de bestiola quam / aliqui melem vocant. Quidam ve/ro Taxonem. A Rege egyptiorum / Octaviano missa', incipit: 'Rex egyptiorum Octaviano au/gusto salutem. Plurimis exem/plis expertus s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 21 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 79r-92v
Title:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis; Rubric: 'Incipit liber Dioscoridis. In hoc / enim libro continentur herbe fe/minee numero sexaginta una / utilissime pro usu medicine. cuius / canones subter scripti sunt. / Prime nomen herbe hecynum', incipit: 'Hec autem herba facit ad he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

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