Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v
Title:: Weather prediction from Christmas day and Lunary
Scope & Content:: Weather prediction from Christmas day (f. 191r); Incipit: 'Die dominica si nativitas /dei/ evenerit / hyems bona et ventosa, estas / sicca et vindemie bone'. Other copies of the text in Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii (ff. 36r-36v) and Cotton MS Cleopatra B. ix (ff. 23r-24r), Egerton MS 2852 (ff. 108v-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 193r-193v
Title:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt. A copy of the medieval dream interpretation handbook. This fragment covers the letters A to C. Incipit: 'Qui interpretationem alicuius sompni inquirit / sic faciat'. Copies of the complete text are Additional MS 15236 (ff. 161v-168v); Cotton MS Tiberius A iii (ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 194r-195r
Title:: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum); Imperfect. Rubric 'Epistula Aristotelis ad regem Alexandrum de sanitate / vite per annum', incipit: 'Alexander cum sit hominis corpus corrupti/bile', explicit: 'abundancia non uti n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 195r-195v
Title:: Charms against fevers and tooth pain
Scope & Content:: Charms against fevers and tooth pain. Rubric 'Pro febribus', inc. 'Petrus stabat ante portas ie/rusalem supervenit dominus'. 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 su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v
Title:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 224r-224v
Title:: Lunary relating to medicine
Scope & Content:: Lunary relating to medicine. Title (15th century) 'De duodecim signs', incipit: 'Et quia signa lune medi/cinis necessaria sunt et u/tilia'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 224v-225v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Calendarium dieteticum
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Calendarium dieteticum. The text is here attributed to Petrus Hispanus. Rubric 'Ego petrus yspanus parve scientie', incipit: 'In nomine pater … Mense Januari 3ynziber (?) uti bonum / est', explicit: 'Explicit tractatus magistri Petri de Yspano'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 226r-227r
Title:: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis, fragment
Scope & Content:: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis, fragment. Imperfect. Incipit: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse neronis / qui post augustum regnavit', breaking at 'De berillo … gestarum refertur amorem'. Other copies of the text are Additional MS 24199 (ff. 56r-61r), Arundel MS 295 (ff. 260...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2559
Title:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-34v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 34r: Marginal commentary, accessus fragment, and Vita Boetii by William of Conches with interlinear notes; added by a contemporary hand (see Codices Boethiani, I (1995), pp. 139-40 (no. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2560
Title:: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina; Publius Papinius Statius, Achilleid; Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona), Hypothesia; Laudatio Hieronymi; Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Remedia Amoris; Priscianus's Latin translation of the Periegesis by Dionysius Periegetes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Publius Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina, attributed here to 'Pindarus', ending: 'Pindarus hunc librum fecit scitat Homerus. GRECUS HOMERUS ERAT SET PINDARUS ESSE LATINUS. DEO GRATIAS AMEN'. ff. 25r-50r: Publius Papinius Statius, Achilleid, in 5 books, ending: 'aura silet p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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