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51. 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.

52. Harley MS 3969

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3969
Title:
Works on history, natural history and rhetoric
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: William of Malmesbury, De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3r-40v); 5 works on orthography with a summarising 'explicit' note by William of Malmesbury (f. 62r): Cassiodorus Senator, De orthographia (ff. 41r-52r); Caprus, Liber de orthograp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
236 folios.

53. Harley MS 4347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347
Title:
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
44 folios.

54. Harley MS 4735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4735
Title:
Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:
Contents: A commentary on Aristotle's Physica (ff. 1r-74v); Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates (ff. 75r-78r). Decoration: Initial in red at the beginning of the book 1. Space left for initials at the beginning of other books and Nicolaus Lakmann's Formalitates. Paraphs in red and first letters ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

55. Harley MS 4973

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4973
Title:
Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis (ff. 1r-33v). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing and a partial border in red and blue, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, and 1 in red wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
34 folios.

56. Harley MS 1914

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1914
Title:
Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae
Scope & Content:
Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae; Imperfect at the end. The Breviarium medicinae or Practica Serapionis is the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona (c.1114-1187) of the Arabic version of a work known as the Small Compendium and originally written in Syriac by Yū...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
133 folios.

57. Harley MS 3662

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3662
Title:
Petrus de Crescentiis (Pietro de’ Crescenzi), Ruralia commoda.
Scope & Content:
Petrus de Crescentiis, Ruralia commoda, imperfect (5 folios excised at the beginning), incipit: '...montes et terras frigidas...' Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and black with pen-flourished decoration in black extending into the margin (f. 46r). Initials in blue with pen-flourished decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
107 folios.

58. Harley MS 3015

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3015
Title:
Miscellany including Bede's De Natura Rerum
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript including: A list of contents (f. 1v); John Chrysostom, Homilies 1-30 (ff. 2r-62r); Augustine of Hippo, Sermones (Sermo 173) (ff. 63r- 64v); Isidore of Seville, De Differentis (ff. 65v-89r); Bede, De Natura Rerum (ff. 90r-99r); Anselm, De libero arbitrio (ff. 100r-10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:
108 folios.

59. Harley MS 3706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3706
Title:
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary
Scope & Content:
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary; imperfect. The short version of the famous collection of didactic verse (360 verses) on health, diet, and medicine put together for oral transmission by doctors at the School of Salerno and assembled in written form with an anonymous commentary in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

86 folios.

60. Harley MS 531

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531
Title:
Miscellaneous texts on astronomy, astrology and meteorology
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was probably assembled before 1474 by the Cambridge scholar and physician Roger Marschall from 8 booklets of different dates and origin (ff. 1-32; 33-47; 48-63; 64-103 + i; 104-116 + ii; 117-131 + i; 132-172; 173-184). Texts included: Table of contents (f. 1*r); Iohannes de Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1272-1474
Extent:
185 folios.

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