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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3748, ff 42r-112v
Title:: Galen, De ingenio sanitatis, Books 1-14
Scope & Content:: The Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-1187) from Arabic sources of Galen's treatise 'Methodus medendi'. The treatise relates to the relationship between natural philosophy and medical knowledge, and Gerard entitled his translation 'De ingenio sanitatis' as attested also in the pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 71 folios.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 546, f 55r
Title:: Text relating to gout and its treatment
Scope & Content:: Text relating to gout and its treatment; imperfect, incipit: 'Guta vocatur quod ad similitudinem gute ace distillat ad íunturas et cetera .i.e. as ead is guta ann do reir Platiarius, breaking at 'acht fo neart na naduire ocus fo méd an teinnis'. Another copy of the text in Additional MS 15582 (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1459
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:: Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:: Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 63 folios.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 88r-89r
Title:: Guilhelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa, extract
Scope & Content:: Guilhelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa, extract; Title [added later] 'De urinis non visis Wil. Anglici tract', incipit: 'Nota super Albabucium quod quilis planeta in quilibus signo sortitur aliquod membrum nam / Saturnus in ariete', explicit 'Et ego cum aliis sum in cura huius … sequentia figura...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3849, ff 46r-61v
Title:: Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica
Scope & Content:: Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica; imperfect at the end. Incipit: 'Cum sit stomachus pro nature necessitate / et humani corporis'. For the text, see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ed. (London, 1963), pp. 343g (incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4346, ff 64v-68v
Title:: Collection of medical recommendations, recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: Incipit (f. 64v): 'Incipit liber primus medicinalis ad capitis do-/lorem. Baccas lauri cum oleo roseo'; incipit (f. 65v): 'Medicamentum ad diver-/sas causas oculorum maculas quoque caligines. Jus / feniculi'; rubric (f. 66r): 'Ad caducum', incipit: 'Primum fac benedici aquam / deinde fac benedici...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 3r-8v
Title:: Gerard of Cremona (attributed to), Theorica planetarum Gerardi
Scope & Content:: The Theorica planetarum Gerardi attributed to Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: An illuminated initial 'C'(irculus) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a one-side bar border surmounted by a hybrid of a monk with animal legs (f. 3r). Includes 6 diagrams (volvelles, some with s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 6 folios.

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.

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