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4831. Harley MS 5290/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5290/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 5290
Scope & Content:
Detached brown leather binding, with the spine affixed to a paper label. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 5290 (a collection of English statutes).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Former binding of Harley MS 5290

4832. Harley MS 5291

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5291
Title:
Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum and Academica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works of the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC): De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil) and Academica (On Academic Skepticism). Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum; ff. 69r-75...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4833. Harley MS 5292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5292
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitoma de Tito Livio (Epitomy of Titus Livy), attributed to the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus (b. c. 74, d. 130). The Latin work is principally based on Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Founding of the City), a history of ancient Rome written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4834. Harley MS 5293

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5293
Title:
Pseudo-John of Damascus, Baarlam et Josaphat
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Pseudo-John of Damascus, Baarlam et Josaphat; imperfect. Decoration: Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour or in both colours. Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked with red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4835. Harley MS 5294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The manuscript is a compilation of late antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts. Contents as follows: 1. Notes on humours, partly in figures of division (f. 1r); 2. Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal, ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

4836. Harley MS 5294, f 1r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, f 1r
Title:
Notes on humours, partly in figures of division.
Scope & Content:
Also includes a series of ownership inscriptions (see provenance).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 folio

4837. Harley MS 5294, f 59v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, f 59v
Title:
Johannitius, Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni, excerpt, in the Latin translation by Marcus of Toledo. Imperfect.
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Medicina dividitur in duas partes id est in theoricam et practicam. Quarum theorica / dividitur in tria .id est. in contemplationem naturalium rerum et non naturalium / quae earum que sunt extra naturam. Ex quibus egritudinem scientia procedit cum ipse naturales res extra cursum / suum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 folio.

4838. Harley MS 5294, ff 1v-6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 1v-6v
Title:
Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal
Scope & Content:
Rubric (f. 1v) 'Incipiunt capitula de herbis mascu/linis .c. xxxi. Per singula nomina', incipit: 'Herba vetonica virtutes habet / .xlvi.', explicit (f. 6v): 'cxlii. Herba Mandragora masculinis virtutes habet .vii. … malitia in domo', with English names of herbs occasionally added by a 15th-centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
6 folios.

4839. Harley MS 5294, ff 7r-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 7r-8v
Title:
Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Scope & Content:
The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 7r): 'Nomen herbe vettonica', incipit: 'Omoeos. Cestros. Alii Cyroae. Tusci vocant / Indicem', explicit: 'Cuius virtutes infra scripte sunt', prologue incipit: 'Haec herba vettonica / nascitur in pratis ... hoc incantatis mundus ante s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
2 folios.

4840. Harley MS 5294, ff 8v-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 8v-43v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
Scope & Content:
The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 8v): 'Incipit aliud herbarium Apulei Platonis eiusdem epistula platonis / ad cives suos. De herba Plantaginis quantas virtutes habeat', prologue incipit: 'Apulius Platon ad cives suos. Ex pluribus paucas vires herbarum et cura-/tiones ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
36 folios.

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