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 6046, ff 222r-249r
Title:: Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera, entitled In Spheram Iohannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius, incipit: 'Compendium quodam est...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1605-1606
Extent:: 29 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046, ff 250r-307v
Title:: Commentary on Aristotle, De coelo
Scope & Content:: A commentary on Aristotle, De coelo, entitled In quatuor libros de Coelo.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1605-1606
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046, ff 308r-358v
Title:: Commentary on Aristotle, De ortu et interritu
Scope & Content:: A commentary on Aristotle, De ortu et interritu, entitled Scholia in libros de ortu et interitu.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1605-1606
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046, ff 359r-371v
Title:: Commentary on Aristotle, Tractatus meteorologicus
Scope & Content:: A commentary on Aristotle, Tractatus meteorologicus, entitled Tractatus meteorologici.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1605-1606
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6083
Title:: Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:: Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B
Title:: Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Miscellany including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, translations and recipes. Contents as follows: 1. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium (ff. 1r-44r); 2. Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes and remedies in Old English and Latin (ff. 44v-51r); 3. Peri didaxeon (ff. 51v-66v)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B, ff 1r-44v
Title:: Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
Scope & Content:: The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 44 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r
Title:: Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medicina de quadrupedibus. The text consists of the Old English translations of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. 1. ff. 44v-45v: De taxone liber (c. 8 recipes). Prologue 'Þe Egypta king ['rexe / king/ rex' added in the margin] þe idpartus wæs hatan / Octaviano þ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B, ff 51v-66v
Title:: Peri Didaxeon
Scope & Content:: This is the only known copy of the translation into Old English of a Latin collection of recipes mainly based on Petrocellus' Practica and Gariopontus material which were probably compiled not earlier than in 1035. The text is imperfect at the end. Rubric (f. 51v) 'Incipit liber qui dicitur / pe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

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