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861. Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v
Title:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani
Scope & Content:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani or Tereoperica (from the title given in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11219, ff. 42r-103v) is an anonymous therapeutic manual in Latin that was put together from Latin sources (some of which can be traced to Greek originals) in late antiquity or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
72 folios.

862. Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v
Title:
Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines)
Scope & Content:
The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
42 folios.

863. Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v
Title:
Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
6 folios.

864. Harley MS 4982

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4982
Title:
Constantinus Africanus, Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

73 folios.

865. Harley MS 4983

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4983
Title:
Nicolaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium
Scope & Content:
Nicolaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. The manuscript is a copy of the Antidotary, a collection of pharmacopoeial remedies in alphabetical order written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicolaus Salernitanus or Nicholas of Salerno. Nicolaus derived his m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

866. Harley MS 4986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4986
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The compilation is a copy of a late-antique and early medieval corpus of pharmacopeial texts. Contents includes: 1. Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 1*r-2*r, 1r); 2. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

84 folios.

867. Harley MS 4986, f 44v

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.

868. Harley MS 4986, ff 1*r-2*v, 1r

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.

869. Harley MS 4986, ff 1r-44r

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.

870. Harley MS 4986, ff 44v-45r

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.

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