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191. Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
101 folios.

192. Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

193. Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:
A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

194. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

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.

195. Harley MS 625

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625
Title:
A collection of astronomical and mathematical treatises and tables.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1* and 1*v); 2. Notes (ff. 1*v-1r); 3. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (ff. 1v-6v); 4. Hyginus, Astronomica (extract) (f. 7v); 5. Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1350-1569
Extent:
176 folios.

196. Harley MS 625, f 7v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625, f 7v
Title:
Hyginus, Astronomica (extract), incipit: 'Arietis exortu sinistra pars'.
Scope & Content:
An extract from Hyginus, Astronomica, listing the constellations of the Zodiac, appended with 2 additional notes. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:

1 folio.

197. Harley MS 625, ff 1*r-1*v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625, ff 1*r-1*v
Title:
Tables of contents
Scope & Content:
Two sets of tables of contents. The first one is in the hand of Simon Bredon (f. 1*r), the second one was added in Merton College, Oxford (f. 1v*). F.1*r also contains notes and astrological signs by John Dee.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:
2 folios

198. Harley MS 625, ff 1*v-1r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625, ff 1*v-1r
Title:
Notes on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Several notes on astronomy, the two longest ones begin: 'Item libellum quod intitulatur Tholomao...', and 'Forma stellata...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1375-1425
Extent:
2 folios.

199. Harley MS 625, ff 1v-6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625, ff 1v-6v
Title:
Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from the Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (Kitab suwar al-kawakib) in a Latin translation
Scope & Content:
The tables extracted from Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi (b. 903, d. 986), Book of the constellations of the fixed stars, an adaptation of Ptolemy's catalogue of stars from the Almagest, but without descriptions of the constellations.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:
6 folios.

200. Harley MS 625, ff 8r-84v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625, ff 8r-84v
Title:
Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili), Elementa astronomica, in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona.
Scope & Content:
Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili), Elementa astronomica, in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: Large initial with pen-flourished decoration including foliate motifs in red and blue, with a partial border, at the beginning of the text (f. 8r). Puzzle initials ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:
72 folios.

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