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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7514, f 1r
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Scope & Content:: Monograms used on Greek coins. Taken from Montfaucon's Palaeographia Graeca, Paris 1708.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 546, f 55r
Title:: Text relating to gout and its treatment
Scope & Content:: Text relating to gout and its treatment; imperfect, incipit: 'Guta vocatur quod ad similitudinem gute ace distillat ad íunturas et cetera .i.e. as ead is guta ann do reir Platiarius, breaking at 'acht fo neart na naduire ocus fo méd an teinnis'. Another copy of the text in Additional MS 15582 (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1459
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:: Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:: Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 63 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 12v-13v
Title:: Precatio Terrae and Precatio omnium herbarum
Scope & Content:: Precatio Terrae, prayers to the earth goddess and herbs; incipit: 'Dea sancta tellus. Rerum nature / parens que cuncta generas', explicit: 'ut hoc mihi tua maiestas prestet; quod te supplex rogo'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter ofthe 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 88r-89r
Title:: Guilhelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa, extract
Scope & Content:: Guilhelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa, extract; Title [added later] 'De urinis non visis Wil. Anglici tract', incipit: 'Nota super Albabucium quod quilis planeta in quilibus signo sortitur aliquod membrum nam / Saturnus in ariete', explicit 'Et ego cum aliis sum in cura huius … sequentia figura...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3849, ff 46r-61v
Title:: Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica
Scope & Content:: Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica; imperfect at the end. Incipit: 'Cum sit stomachus pro nature necessitate / et humani corporis'. For the text, see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ed. (London, 1963), pp. 343g (incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4346, ff 64v-68v
Title:: Collection of medical recommendations, recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: Incipit (f. 64v): 'Incipit liber primus medicinalis ad capitis do-/lorem. Baccas lauri cum oleo roseo'; incipit (f. 65v): 'Medicamentum ad diver-/sas causas oculorum maculas quoque caligines. Jus / feniculi'; rubric (f. 66r): 'Ad caducum', incipit: 'Primum fac benedici aquam / deinde fac benedici...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

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