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4842. Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r
- Title:
- Medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
- Incipit: 'Ad ficum cancrum et ad fistulam. Accipe nigras fabas et caprina stercora'. This copy is 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 19...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 12th century-Early 13th century
- Extent:
-
2 folios.
4843. Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v
- Title:
- (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
- Scope & Content:
- This copy includes only the first four chapters of the text according to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric 'De cervo', incipit: 'Cornu cervi habet virtutes ad omnes humores excitandos / in colliriis oculorum utuntur', explicit [rubric f. 62 'Ad oscidinem] (f. 62v): 'Caprie sevum ad fissuras l...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 3 folios.
4844. Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v
- Title:
- Medical miscellaneous texts
- Scope & Content:
- 1. Phitotherapic compilation (ff. 62v-64v); Rubric 'Incipit de nominibus herbarum', incipit: 'Hec sunt nomina herbarum. Rosa semen eius anetha. floribus et semine utimur. Viola. floribus in confectionibus / foliis in unguentis utimur', explicit: 'Diptamnum similis est sinano, sed non facit folia...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 12th century-Early 13th century
- Extent:
- 7 folios
4845. Harley MS 5295
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5295
- Title:
- Cicero, De Oratore
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with interlace and white vine decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 4v (with purple pen-flourishing), 44r, 46r, 107r, 110r). C...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4846. Harley MS 5296
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5296
- Title:
- Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1-100: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. It seems that the text was left unfinished in the 12th century (interrupted in the middle of Book 11) and only completed in the late 15th century in a humanistic hand trying to imitate the earlier script (ff. 86v-100). Numerous added ma...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4847. Harley MS 5297
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5297
- Title:
- Description of Near East, Middle East, and Asia, in French
- Scope & Content:
- Description of near East, Asia Minor, Greece and Mediterranean Islands, Asia Minor and Middle East, China, East Indies, Isles de l’archipelago de St Laurens aux Indes, and Tartary. With extracts from published accounts. ff. 1-23 written in two different hands. Text incomplete: Lead words for ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4848. Harley MS 5298
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5298
- Title:
- Form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in Latin, French and Spanish
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscript form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in three languages, with printed initials (rubricated and painted in gold leaf), ornaments and heraldic devices (ff. 2v, 11v, 17r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4849. Harley MS 5299
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5299
- Title:
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation)
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (published in its complete form in 1532); French translation by 'Helye Bonnet' of the first five books; dedicated to the ‘Dauphin’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 2r, 72v, 73r: Inscriptions of numbers (possibly a cyp...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- c 1532-c 1540
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4850. Harley MS 5300
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5300
- Title:
- Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62). The manuscript was perhaps made at the same workshop and by the same scribe as Harley MS 4856, which contains a copy of Vi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume