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781. Harley MS 3969, ff 216r-224r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3969, ff 216r-224r
Title:
Joachim of Fiore, Commentary on Revelation (imperfect, text missing at the beginning)
Scope & Content:
Incipit: '...signat. Ut enim proferamus breviter que non brevi coartanda sunt...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
9 folios.

782. Harley MS 3969, ff 224r-224v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3969, ff 224r-224v
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), De presagiis temporum (excerpt from the Historia naturalis, book 18, 78-90) (imperfect: text missing at the end)
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Space left for the initial 'D' at the beginning of the text (f. 224r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 folio.

783. Harley MS 3969, ff 225r-231v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3969, ff 225r-231v
Title:
Hieronimus, Epistola ad Helvidium
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'N'(uper) in red and blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs, at the beginning of the text (f. 225r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
7 folios.

784. Harley MS 4114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4114
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on the Canon Medicine, Book 3, Fen iv-vi by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in its Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1486
Extent:

195 folios.

785. Harley MS 4235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4235
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. The manuscript includes: a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

786. Harley MS 4236

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4236
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in several manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. Another copy manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

787. Harley MS 4241

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4241
Title:
Aristotle, Metaphysica
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, Metaphysica. Decoration: Initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1464
Extent:
88 folios.

788. Harley MS 4346

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including Macer Floridus and other medical texts including recipes and charms relating to the regimen of health, urine and uroscopy, diagnosis and prognosis; partly imperfect. Contents as follows: 1. Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (ff. 1r-54r); 2. De pon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

68 folios.

789. Harley MS 4346, ff 1r-54r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 1r-54r
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
54 folios.

790. Harley MS 4346, ff 54r-56v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 54r-56v
Title:
De ponderibus Almansoris et Serapionis
Scope & Content:
The text includes excerpts from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, Book 16, 25-26. Incipit: 'Pondera medicinalium signorum conati sumus / narrare', explicit: 'Explicit opusculum'. See W. M. Lindsay, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum libri, 2 vols (Oxford, 1911). See also J. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
3 folios.

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