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671. Harley MS 3735, ff 82v-105r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3735, ff 82v-105r
Title:
Robert Grosseteste, Computus correctorius
Scope & Content:
Robert Grosseteste, Computus correctorius. Diagram (f. 83v) and tables (ff. 85v, 89r, 93r, 99v). Large initial in gold and colours, at the bginning of the text (f. 82v). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue. Drawing of a man under ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1264-1293
Extent:
13 folios.

672. Harley MS 3736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3736
Title:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:
This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475 - c 1525
Extent:

1 volume

673. Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r
Title:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:
Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
80 folios.

674. Harley MS 3736, ff 81r-158v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3736, ff 81r-158v
Title:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones
Scope & Content:
Giovanni Cadamosto, Treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
78 folios.

675. Harley MS 3737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3737
Title:
Alexander Neckam, De naturis rerum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Alexander Neckham, De naturis rerum, with added glosses including a passage from P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses and Claudianus De phenicae (f. 31r). Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red, with pen-flourishing and penwork decoration including foliate motifs (f. 2r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1180-c 1200
Extent:

Parchment codex

676. Harley MS 3744

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744
Title:
Avicenna, Canon medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains books I, II, V, and IV of the medical summa by Ibn Sina, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (d. 1037), known in the West as Avicenna, in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis or Gerard of Cremona (circa 1113/4-1187). The volume is made up of two separate codicological ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:

154 folios.

677. Harley MS 3744, ff 1r-5r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744, ff 1r-5r
Title:
Synonyma Avicennae
Scope & Content:
Synonyma Avicennae. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Incipiunt synonima avicenne seu alphabetum', incipit: 'Alphadini id est medicus', explicit (f. 5r) 'Zegi id est atramentum vel vitreolum / Expliciunt synonima avicenne'. Followed (f. 5r) by a medical note, incipit: 'Medicina artium exellentissima'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
5 folios.

678. Harley MS 3744, ff 6r-135v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744, ff 6r-135v
Title:
Avicenna, Canon medicine
Scope & Content:
Avicenna, Canon medicine, Books I, II, V. Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona). Title (f. 6r) 'Incipit liber primus', rubric 'Incipit liber canonis primus, quem prin/ceps aboali ab nicenni de medicina edi/dit translatus a magistro giraldo cremo/nensi in toleto de arabico ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
130 folios.

679. Harley MS 3744, ff 136r-137v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744, ff 136r-137v
Title:
Medical notes
Scope & Content:
Medical notes including a glossary of Arabic words and their Latin equivalents and a list of medical drugs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century-Early 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

680. Harley MS 3744, ff 138r-154v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3744, ff 138r-154v
Title:
Avicenna, Canon medicine, Book IV
Scope & Content:
Avicenna, Canon medicine, Book IV, Fen 1-2. Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis. Rubric (f. 138r): 'Incipit liber quartus canonis avicenne / fen prima de febre et sunt / quatuor tractatus / primus est de / febribus / effimeris', incipit: 'Febris est calor / extraneus accensus in corde', exp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
16 folios.