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3631. Harley MS 5396

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5396
Title:
Scope & Content:
Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1470
Extent:
1 item

3632. Harley MS 5397

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5397
Title:
Johann von Muralt, Clavis Medicinae Dialogo Tradita
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 285v: Johann von Muralt, Clavis Medicinae Dialogo Tradita (1685). ff. 286r-290v: An index of subjects. Decoration: An engraved title-page by Johannes Meyer (f. 1r); inserted smaller pages with either multiple panels or a full-page drawing in black ink; mostly containing an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1685
Extent:
1 volume

3633. Harley MS 5398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5398
Title:
Collection of religious texts, including Richard Rolle, De modo vivendi; sermons by Johannis Schyrborn, John Haynton, and Rainold of Gloucester; Tract on the Ten Sibyls; Speculum peccatoris; Richard of Saint-Victor, Benjamin minor; Formula Dictaminis; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum conscientiae, Contemplationes de passione Christi, Epistola de honestate morum, Meditiationes de miseria humane conditiones, and De ingratitudine
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: Poem on the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac: Est aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo / Libra que scorpio architenens capra urna que pisces / Semper quindenis ponuntur signa kalendis'; followed by a prose explanation on the Signs of the Zodiac. f. 2r: Mnemonic verse on the Kalenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3634. Harley MS 5399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5399
Title:
Collection of alchemical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: Pseudo-Ramon Llull [here attributed], De primo practicali principio libri vade mecum. f. 12: An excerpt from the ‘Liber argentine’; attributed to an anonymous doctor; below the name ‘Wissenkercke’ has been added. ff. 13v-31r: Pseudo-Ramon Llull [here attributed], Liber ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3635. Harley MS 5400

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5400
Title:
Pseudo-Eusebius, Epistola de transitu beati Hieronymi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54v: Pseudo-Eusebius, Epistola de transitu beati Hieronymi (letter to Pope Damasus and Senator Theodosius on the death and of St Jerome; PL 22, cols 240-82). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate extensions, forming a three-sided border (f. 1r). Small...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3636. Harley MS 5401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5401
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical and Culinary Compendium; 2nd half of the 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Partly copies. The MS. mainly contains medical and culinary treatises and recipes, which include: - a) John Arderne, Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-77v; item 1); - b) Treatise on uroscopy (ff. 94-94v; item 9); - c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3637. Harley MS 5402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5402
Title:
Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:
Includes: A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v); Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r); Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r); 5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin: Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1160-1340
Extent:
104 folios.

3638. Harley MS 5403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5403
Title:
Alchemical tracts; German treatise on the transmutation of the elements; alchemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Alchemical tracts in Latin. ff. 16r-37r: A German treatise on the transmutation of the elements. f. 37v-38r: An alchemical recipe by Johannes Ediling. ff. 38v-56v: Alchemical tracts in Latin. ff. 56v-59v: Tracts in German by Nicholaus of Breslau. ff. 60r-72v: Alchemi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3639. Harley MS 5404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5404
Title:
Euclid, Elementa (translated by Adelard of Bath)
Scope & Content:
Contains books 1-12 of Euclid's Elementa, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath. Text lacking (the end of 1.33 through the beginning of 1.37) between ff 16v and 17r. Geometric diagrams drawn in the margins in black ink illustrate principles of the text. Twelve puzzle initials in red and blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

3640. Harley MS 5406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5406
Title:
Varro, De lingua latina, bks 5-9
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: table of contents, incorrectly listing De lingua Latina bks 4-9 instead of 5-9. ff. 2*v-3*r: reused folios from two other medieval manuscripts with unidentified theological texts. f. 2*v is a pastedown. ff. 1r-134v: De lingua latina libri XXV (On the Latin Language in Twenty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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