The manuscript contains: f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2r-18v: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius. ff. 19r-26v: Alain de Lille, Liber Penitentialis, appended with 'De confessione' (f. 26r) and Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo de diversis (ff. 26r-26v). ff. 27r-33v: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de...
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 of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
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The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts on techniques and technology of various arts
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f. 1v: A recipe for making colours, an extract from the Mappae clavicula. ff. 2r-109v: Theophilus, De diversis artibus. ff. 109v-113v: Heraclius, De coloribus et artibus romanorum. ff. 114r-114v: De temperamento vesice escivi: an extract from a text on book illumination. ff. 114v-115v: De si...
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...
Medical miscellany containing Latin translations of medical treatises originally written in Arabic: 1. Pseudo-Serapion (Ibn Wāfid), Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus (ff. 1r-74r); 2. Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae (ff. 75r-158v); 3. Pseudo-Mesue, C...
Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
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This manuscript is the first of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/2 and Harley MS 1605/3). It contains fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae. The text is known as the 'Harley Brut' bu...
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicinae.
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This collection of 11 volumes contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (b. c. 1380, d. 1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on Books 1 (fen I-IV), 3, and 4 (only fen I) of the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Lati...
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicine
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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...
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...