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701. Harley MS 4346, ff 1r-54r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 1r-54r
Title:
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
A copy of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs written under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The author is now generally identified with the French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire whose name is mentioned in anothe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
54 folios.

702. Harley MS 3915, ff 145v-146r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3915, ff 145v-146r
Title:
Medical and chemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical and chemical recipes, incipit : 'Dentifricium .r. pumicis...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

2 folios.

703. Harley MS 13, ff 119v-122r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 13, ff 119v-122r
Title:
Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti
Scope & Content:
Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'C' in gold and colours at the beginning of the text; with a guide letter 'e' and a letter 'e' correcting the initial in the margin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1310
Extent:

4 folios.

704. Harley MS 208, f 112r (item 1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 208, f 112r (item 1)
Title:
A letter 'Eximie indolis honore fulgido'
Scope & Content:
A letter, incipit: 'Eximie indolis honore fulgido...'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

1 folio.

705. Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1520
Extent:
118 folios.

706. Harley MS 2558, ff 10r-11v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 10r-11v
Title:
Table of contents of the herbal
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of the herbal (see ff. 13r-64v); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The table lists the ailments from head to toe with the name of the relevant remedial herb. Incipit: 'Pro dolore capitis capitulo absinthium'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Sci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

707. Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
15 folios.

708. Harley MS 3234, ff 1r-41r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3234, ff 1r-41r
Title:
Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and black ink with penwork decoration, and smaller initials in red, some with penwork decoration; quide letters next to initials. Paraphs in red and first letters of verses highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-1440
Extent:
41 folios.

709. Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r
Title:
Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt).
Scope & Content:
Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt). The Latin text and its Old English translation are integrated in the same column (ff. 115v-118r) or the translation is included as an interlinear gloss (ff. 118v-120r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
6 folios.

710. Harley MS 3595, ff 1r-48v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3595, ff 1r-48v
Title:
Boethius, De arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Boethius's De arithmetica,with interlinear and marginal glosses. Decoration: Initials in brown ink. Several drawings of geometric figures in brown or red ink (ff. 6r, 6v, 15r, 15v, 17r, 18r, 20r). Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, with a full page diagram added at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 3595.

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