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101. Harley MS 2650

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2650
Title:
Martianus Capella, De astronomia and Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 8 (De astronomia) (ff. 1r-33v); Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis, montium et fluminum (fragment of carmen 134 Adelae Comitissae, v. 749-945) (ff. 33v-37r); Astro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

39 folios.

102. Harley MS 5311

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5311
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. The manuscript includes: 1. leaf A (f. 10): entitled 'Canon tituli festis / mobilibus et / [.....] sanguinis': Calendar canon (recto), table of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1406
Extent:

10 folded separate folios.

103. Harley MS 585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585
Title:
Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:
Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
Scope & Content:
The volume is composed of two parts that comprise: Isidore of Seville Etymologiae (ff. 1r-149r), and Alexander Neckam Corrogationes Promethei (ff. 150r-196r). The manuscript also includes a title and a table of contents (ff. 1*v-2*r) added on two flyleaves at the beginning of the book.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

105. Harley MS 3843

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3843
Title:
Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: 1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v); 2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r); 3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

129 folios.

106. Harley MS 270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 270
Title:
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket; Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans
Scope & Content:
The volume is made up of two separate manuscripts (ff. 1r-122v, 123r-149v), as follows: Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Vie de Saint Thomas Becket (ff. 1r-122v); Matthaeus Platearius (attributed), Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans (ff. 123r-149v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1175-1249
Extent:

1 volume

107. Harley MS 3748

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3748
Title:
Galen, Opera
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical works by the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (c. 130-200), translated into Latin partly by Gerard of Cremona. The manuscript contains: De crisis (ff. 1r-24v); De criticis diebus (ff. 24v-42r); De ingenio sanitatis, translated by Gerard of Cremona (ff. 42r-112v)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-15th century
Extent:
210 folios.

108. Harley MS 1602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1602
Title:
Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

109. Harley MS 5771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5771
Title:
Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance
Scope & Content:
Includes the copy of the Élévation des eaux, a treatise on hydrostatics and hydraulic that Sir Samuel Morland dedicated in 1683 to Louis XIV, king of France. The text was first published in print in 1685 in Paris. Decoration: The text on each page is written within a golden or blue frame with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1683
Extent:

1 volume

110. Harley MS 1687

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1687
Title:
Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: List of letters of the Hebrew alphabet with Latin translations (f. 1v); Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae, attributed to William Brito (ff. 2r-127r), comprising a note relating to medicine added by a contemporary hand (f. 64r margin); Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1250-1450
Extent:
1 volume

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