Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
A copy of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs written under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The author is now generally identified with the French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire whose name is mentioned in anothe...
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum (fragment)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 221, and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
15 leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274
Johann Georg Atzenhover, De actionibus mixtis, Sedan 1595. Latin. Printed, with a few MS additions. Imperfect, comprising only the title-page and pp.169-176 (disputatio xix)
Contents: ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Caelesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'. ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St St...