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1. Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Ad ficum cancrum et ad fistulam. Accipe nigras fabas et caprina stercora'. This copy is 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 supplements in 1965 and 19...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:

2 folios.

2. Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v
Title:
Medical miscellaneous texts
Scope & Content:
1. Phitotherapic compilation (ff. 62v-64v); Rubric 'Incipit de nominibus herbarum', incipit: 'Hec sunt nomina herbarum. Rosa semen eius anetha. floribus et semine utimur. Viola. floribus in confectionibus / foliis in unguentis utimur', explicit: 'Diptamnum similis est sinano, sed non facit folia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
7 folios

3. Harley MS 5294, ff 8v-43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 8v-43v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
Scope & Content:
The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 8v): 'Incipit aliud herbarium Apulei Platonis eiusdem epistula platonis / ad cives suos. De herba Plantaginis quantas virtutes habeat', prologue incipit: 'Apulius Platon ad cives suos. Ex pluribus paucas vires herbarum et cura-/tiones ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
36 folios.

4. Harley MS 5294, ff 7r-8v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 7r-8v
Title:
Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Scope & Content:
The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 7r): 'Nomen herbe vettonica', incipit: 'Omoeos. Cestros. Alii Cyroae. Tusci vocant / Indicem', explicit: 'Cuius virtutes infra scripte sunt', prologue incipit: 'Haec herba vettonica / nascitur in pratis ... hoc incantatis mundus ante s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
2 folios.

5. Harley MS 5294, ff 43v-58r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 43v-58r
Title:
Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (71 chapters)
Scope & Content:
Rubric 'Incipit liber medicine Dioscoridis ex herbis femininis numero .lxxi. per / singula nomina. Nomen herbe Afrise frigida vocatur', with chapter number in the margin '[cx]lii.', incipit: 'Nascitur in montuosis et lapidosis locis et / arenosis solia', explicit: '[rubric 'Nomen herbe Aperine',...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
16 folios.

6. Harley MS 5294, f 1r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, f 1r
Title:
Notes on humours, partly in figures of division.
Scope & Content:
Also includes a series of ownership inscriptions (see provenance).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 folio

7. Harley MS 5294, ff 1v-6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 1v-6v
Title:
Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal
Scope & Content:
Rubric (f. 1v) 'Incipiunt capitula de herbis mascu/linis .c. xxxi. Per singula nomina', incipit: 'Herba vetonica virtutes habet / .xlvi.', explicit (f. 6v): 'cxlii. Herba Mandragora masculinis virtutes habet .vii. … malitia in domo', with English names of herbs occasionally added by a 15th-centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
6 folios.

8. Harley MS 5294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The manuscript is a compilation of late antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts. Contents as follows: 1. Notes on humours, partly in figures of division (f. 1r); 2. Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal, ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v
Title:
(Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
Scope & Content:
This copy includes only the first four chapters of the text according to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric 'De cervo', incipit: 'Cornu cervi habet virtutes ad omnes humores excitandos / in colliriis oculorum utuntur', explicit [rubric f. 62 'Ad oscidinem] (f. 62v): 'Caprie sevum ad fissuras l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
3 folios.

10. Harley MS 5294, f 59v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294, f 59v
Title:
Johannitius, Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni, excerpt, in the Latin translation by Marcus of Toledo. Imperfect.
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Medicina dividitur in duas partes id est in theoricam et practicam. Quarum theorica / dividitur in tria .id est. in contemplationem naturalium rerum et non naturalium / quae earum que sunt extra naturam. Ex quibus egritudinem scientia procedit cum ipse naturales res extra cursum / suum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 folio.