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971. Harley MS 4338

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4338
Title:
Le Livre de Boèce de Consolacion (Book IV)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the fourth volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Lati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

972. Harley MS 4339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4339
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book V)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the fifth volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in Latin (alternating verse and prose) is followed by a commentary in Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:

1 volume

973. Harley MS 4346

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including Macer Floridus and other medical texts including recipes and charms relating to the regimen of health, urine and uroscopy, diagnosis and prognosis; partly imperfect. Contents as follows: 1. Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (ff. 1r-54r); 2. De pon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

68 folios.

974. 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.

975. Harley MS 4346, ff 54r-56v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 54r-56v
Title:
De ponderibus Almansoris et Serapionis
Scope & Content:
The text includes excerpts from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, Book 16, 25-26. Incipit: 'Pondera medicinalium signorum conati sumus / narrare', explicit: 'Explicit opusculum'. See W. M. Lindsay, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum libri, 2 vols (Oxford, 1911). See also J. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
3 folios.

976. Harley MS 4346, ff 56v-57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 56v-57v
Title:
Text relating to regimen of health
Scope & Content:
The text is a contamination of 'Ars medicinae', for which see R. Laux, 'Ars medicinae. Ein Frühmittelalterliches Kompendium der Medizin', Kyklos, 3 (1930), 417-34. Incipit: 'Incipit hic medicina quid sumere debeamus aut / quid vitare in singulis temporibus anni', explicit: 'sanus sine / ullis med...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
2 folios.

977. Harley MS 4346, ff 57v-62v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 57v-62v
Title:
Text on medical diagnosis and prognosis
Scope & Content:
The text is contamination of Sapientia artis medicinae, for which see M. Wlaschky, 'Sapientia artis medicinae. Ein frühmittelalterliches Kompendium der Medizin', Kyklos, 1 (1928), 103-13. Rubric 'Pronostica infirmitatum', incipit: 'Frenetica passio ex nimio vino contigit quoque / de aqua frigida'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
6 folios.

978. Harley MS 4346, ff 62v-64r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 62v-64r
Title:
Pseudo-Galen, De urinis
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Epistola galieni de urinarum specie quod / greci pronosin deagosin vocant id est intel-/ligentia. ut per speciem urinarum'. The text, which includes and ends with an embedded text relating to diagnosis and prognosis through urine examination, was published from this manuscript in Leisin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
3 folios.

979. Harley MS 4346, ff 64r-64v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4346, ff 64r-64v
Title:
Ad freneticos
Scope & Content:
Rubric 'De passionibus diversis', incipit: 'Frenetica passio alienatio mentis dicitur / et evenit per nimium vinum', explicit: 'ad somnum freneticos adducit'. For the text, see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. edn. (London, 1963; T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 folio.

980. Harley MS 4346, ff 64v-68v

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.

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