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861. Harley MS 5228, ff 119r-131v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5228, ff 119r-131v
Title:
Nomenclatura medica with medical recipes
Scope & Content:
The seventh unit includes: Nomenclatura medica (ff. 119r-129v); Incipit: 'Alopicia id est depilatio et dicitur ab allopidibus id est / vulpibus'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of Ame...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
13 folios.

862. Harley MS 5228, ff 132r-139r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5228, ff 132r-139r
Title:
Treatise relating to natural philosophy and the nature of elements
Scope & Content:
The eighth unit includes a treatise relating to natural philosophy and the nature of elements; incipit: 'Quoniam dicuntur elementa superiora in his inferioribus dominari'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
8 folios.

863. Harley MS 5228, ff 140r-140v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5228, ff 140r-140v
Title:
Gregory the Great, Cura pastoralis, I, 77, 23-26 (fragment)
Scope & Content:
The flyleaf at the end is a leaf from a 9th-century English manuscript of Gregory the Great, Cura pastoralis, I, 77, 23-26, see Gneuss 2001 (with incorrect shelfmark) and Gneuss 2003.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
1 folio.

864. Harley MS 5266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5266
Title:
Euclid, Elements
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Euclid's Elements, translated by Adelard of Bath, with an added table of contents (f. 127r) and a round map of the world (mappa mundi) (f. 128v). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours with a portrait of Euclid (f. 1r). 7 large initials in colours with birds or animals ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

865. 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

866. 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

867. 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.

868. 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.

869. 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.

870. 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.