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2581. Harley MS 2553

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2553
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-248r: Virgil, Aeneid. The manuscript contains later additions: Copiously annotated throughout in 15th-century hands, including an ink drawing with ships (f. 80v). ff. 249r-249v: Latin verses, beginning: 'Bartholomie omnes forma'; written in 15th-century hands. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1442-1443
Extent:
1 volume

2582. Harley MS 2557

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2557
Title:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and other texts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-52r: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio, incipit: 'Adventus Enee in italiam.' ff. 53r-111v: Mythographus Vaticanus secundus, incipit: '[H]ii quos pagani deos asserendo venerantur ... cognita morbi causa.' ff. 112r-114r: 'De duodecim signis et primum de capricorni', incipit: 'Capri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
Paper codex

2583. Harley MS 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
227 folios.

2584. Harley MS 2558, f 12v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 12v
Title:
De saporibus et gradibus
Scope & Content:
De saporibus et gradibus (culinary recipe); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Title 'De saporibus et gradibus', incipit: 'Novem sunt species saporum'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2585. Harley MS 2558, f 151v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 151v
Title:
Alchemical treatise
Scope & Content:
An alchemical treatise; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: 'Thesasauro [sic] nomine ponite intentionem vestram ad medicinam / alicui thesasauro'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2586. Harley MS 2558, f 166r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 166r
Title:
Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development
Scope & Content:
Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development. Title (added later) 'De conceptione et formatione embryi', incipit: 'Omnibus horis quibus connubit homo omni muliere'. Another copy in Harley MS 3383 (f. 77r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2587. Harley MS 2558, f 166v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 166v
Title:
Two diagrams of the female hand for prognostication and one charm against toothache
Scope & Content:
Two diagrams of the female hand for prognostication and one charm against toothache. Charm rubric 'Oracio pro dolore dentium', incipit: 'Virgo mater egregia pro nobis appollonea funde preces ad dominum ne pro reatu'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2588. Harley MS 2558, f 225v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 225v
Title:
Medical recipe
Scope & Content:
Medical recipe. Title (in the upper margin; 15th century) 'Ad faciendum pillulas', incipit: 'Ad conficiendum pillulas medicinales / Elera'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2589. Harley MS 2558, f 227v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, f 227v
Title:
Weather prognostications; proverbs; Synonyma Abuali
Scope & Content:
Weather prognostications and proverbs. The text include the prognostications 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. 914h; its elect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2590. Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 1r-5v
Title:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms
Scope & Content:
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
5 folios.

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