Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Digitised Content Platform: BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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 5294, ff 43v-58r
Title:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (71 chapters)
Scope & Content:: Rubric 'Incipit liber medicine Dioscoridis ex herbis femininis numero .lxxi. per / singula nomina. Nomen herbe Afrise frigida vocatur', with chapter number in the margin '[cx]lii.', incipit: 'Nascitur in montuosis et lapidosis locis et / arenosis solia', explicit: '[rubric 'Nomen herbe Aperine',...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 58v-59r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Ad ficum cancrum et ad fistulam. Accipe nigras fabas et caprina stercora'. This copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 19...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v
Title:: (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
Scope & Content:: This copy includes only the first four chapters of the text according to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric 'De cervo', incipit: 'Cornu cervi habet virtutes ad omnes humores excitandos / in colliriis oculorum utuntur', explicit [rubric f. 62 'Ad oscidinem] (f. 62v): 'Caprie sevum ad fissuras l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v
Title:: Medical miscellaneous texts
Scope & Content:: 1. Phitotherapic compilation (ff. 62v-64v); Rubric 'Incipit de nominibus herbarum', incipit: 'Hec sunt nomina herbarum. Rosa semen eius anetha. floribus et semine utimur. Viola. floribus in confectionibus / foliis in unguentis utimur', explicit: 'Diptamnum similis est sinano, sed non facit folia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5311
Title:: Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:: A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. The manuscript includes: 1. leaf A (f. 10): entitled 'Canon tituli festis / mobilibus et / [.....] sanguinis': Calendar canon (recto), table of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1406
Extent:: 10 folded separate folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5325
Title:: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a fragment from an unidentified scientific text written in a 13th-century hand. ff. 1r-56v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus. Decoration: Initials in blue or red, some with foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 11th century-early 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: Includes: A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v); Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r); Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r); 5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin: Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1340
Extent:: 104 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402, ff 1*r-2*v
Title:: Antiphonary (fragment)
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*r-2*v are one folio from an antiphonary used as flyleaves. The contents include the introitus, gradual, offertorium and communio of the Christmas Day mass, and an introitus with a gradual of the mass for St Stephen.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402, ff 1r-15r
Title:: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (see Juste 2007 for the identification of the text), attributed here to Alkandrinus. Decoration: Initials in blue or brown with red or brown pen-flourishing (f. 1r) and in red (ff. 1v-15r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

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