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821. Harley MS 4970

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970
Title:
Aristotle, De animalibus
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, De animalibus (ff. 1r-65r) with an added table of contents (ff. 65v-66r). Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours extending into the margin (f. 1). Initials in blue with pink and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 4r, 7r, 10v, 14r, 17r, 20r, etc.). Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
66 folios.

822. Harley MS 4970, ff 1*r-1*v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970, ff 1*r-1*v
Title:
Flyleaf, original pastedown
Scope & Content:
The flyleaf includes a text in a 14th-century English hand, incipit: 'Mater mellenius...'; and 16th or 17th-century pen trials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
1 folio.

823. Harley MS 4970, ff 1r-65r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970, ff 1r-65r
Title:
Aristotle, De animalibus
Scope & Content:
The title 'Liber de animalibus' is inscribed in a 14th-century hand (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
65 folios.

824. Harley MS 4970, ff 65v-66r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4970, ff 65v-66r
Title:
Table of contents
Scope & Content:
A table of contents in a 14th-century English hand, unfinished: contains only chapters of book 1 and ends with 'capitula secundi libri', although the manuscript does not contain the division in chapters. Both folios also include 16th or 17th century pen trials and notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
2 folios; f 66 is an original pastedown.

825. Harley MS 4973

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4973
Title:
Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis (ff. 1r-33v). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing and a partial border in red and blue, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, and 1 in red wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
34 folios.

826. Harley MS 4977

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Medical compendium, imperfect. The manuscript includes: Practica Petrocelli Salernitani (ff. 2r-72v); Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines) (ff. 73r -115v); Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology (ff. 115v-120v). Decoration: Large in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

121 folios.

827. Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v
Title:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani
Scope & Content:
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani or Tereoperica (from the title given in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11219, ff. 42r-103v) is an anonymous therapeutic manual in Latin that was put together from Latin sources (some of which can be traced to Greek originals) in late antiquity or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
72 folios.

828. Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v
Title:
Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines)
Scope & Content:
The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
42 folios.

829. Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v
Title:
Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
6 folios.

830. Harley MS 4982

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4982
Title:
Constantinus Africanus, Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

73 folios.

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