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281. Harley MS 1585, ff 10r-12r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585, ff 10r-12r
Title:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate)
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate); incipit: 'Ypochrates mecennati suo salutem / Libellum quem tibi roganti promisi om/ni cura adhibita', explicit: 'sanus transiges omne / tempus etatis nec medicis indige/bis'. Other copies are Additional MS 8928 (ff. 25r-26r), Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
3 folios.

282. Harley MS 1585, ff 12v-13v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585, ff 12v-13v
Title:
Precatio Terrae and Precatio omnium herbarum
Scope & Content:
Precatio Terrae, prayers to the earth goddess and herbs; incipit: 'Dea sancta tellus. Rerum nature / parens que cuncta generas', explicit: 'ut hoc mihi tua maiestas prestet; quod te supplex rogo'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter ofthe 12th century
Extent:
2 folios.

283. Harley MS 1585, ff 13v-58r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585, ff 13v-58r
Title:
Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber and Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium or De medicaminibus herbarum
Scope & Content:
Two herbals written continuously as one text: 1. ff. 13v-16v: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber. The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Prologue incipit: 'Antoni musus mecennati Agrip/pe salutem. Cesari augusto / praestantissimo omnium mor/talium se et iudicibus ipsius....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
45 folios.

284. Harley MS 1585, ff 58r-78v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585, ff 58r-78v
Title:
De taxone and (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus
Scope & Content:
1. De taxone (ff. 58r-58v). The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 58r): 'Incipit Epystola de bestiola quam / aliqui melem vocant. Quidam ve/ro Taxonem. A Rege egyptiorum / Octaviano missa', incipit: 'Rex egyptiorum Octaviano au/gusto salutem. Plurimis exem/plis expertus s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
21 folios.

285. Harley MS 1585, ff 79r-92v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1585, ff 79r-92v
Title:
Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis; Rubric: 'Incipit liber Dioscoridis. In hoc / enim libro continentur herbe fe/minee numero sexaginta una / utilissime pro usu medicine. cuius / canones subter scripti sunt. / Prime nomen herbe hecynum', incipit: 'Hec autem herba facit ad he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
14 folios.

286. 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

287. Harley MS 1605/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/1
Title:
Fragments of an anonymous Anglo-Norman metrical translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittaniae
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1250
Extent:

1 volume

288. Harley MS 1676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1676
Title:
Constantinus Africanus (Constantine the African), Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
A copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni 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 the Kitāb Kāmil ('the complete' -...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
163 folios.

289. Harley MS 1683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1683
Title:
Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis], Collection of lectures on Galen, Hippocrates and Jacobus Sylvius
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of lectures on medical authors by the French physician Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis] (b. 1545, d. 1611) : Table of contents (f. 1v); Lecture on Hippocrates, De natura hominis (ff. 2r-18v); Lecture on Jacobus Sylvius, Anatomen (ff. 19r-40v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

290. Harley MS 1683, f 1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1683, f 1v
Title:
Table of contents.
Scope & Content:
The table of contents.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1600-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 folio.

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