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4251. Harley MS 4336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4336
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book II)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the second 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

4252. Harley MS 4337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4337
Title:
Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book III)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the third 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

4253. 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

4254. 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

4255. Harley MS 4341

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4341
Title:
Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-95r: 'Eloges des Personnes Illustres de l'ancien Testament pour donner une teinture de l'Histoire Sainte'; consisting of 46 sections with French poems on and engravings of Old Testament figures, from Adam until Herod; ending with a table (ff. 94r-95r). Decoration: 48 engraved...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4256. Harley MS 4342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4342
Title:
Bartholomew of San Concordio, Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-206v: Bartholomew of San Concordio, Summa de Casibus Conscientiae. f. 207r: ownership inscription of an Augustinian friar, 1585. 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf between ff. 206 and 207. f. 1*v is blank. Decoration: Full floral border in colours and gold with a decorated initial, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
1 volume

4257. Harley MS 4344

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4344
Title:
A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-76r: A chronicle of England to the reign of King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and again from 1470-1471) beginning: 'Britannia que et Anglia dicitur a Bruto nomen sortita que ante ipsius adventum albion [dice]batur'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 76v: A fragment of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4258. 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.

4259. 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.

4260. 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.

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