Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347
Title:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, f 43v
Title:: A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Incipit inventio sancte crucis .i. tri bliadhna deg air fhicheat ar...'. According to Flower (1926) this text was associated with the Irish Fierabras.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r
Title:: Hippocrates, Aphorismata
Scope & Content:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates in seven books in Latin and Irish. The Latin version is that of Nicholaus Leonicenus, the Italian physician and humanist (b. 1428, d. 1524), which was first printed in 1524. Each Latin aphorism is followed by an Irish translation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 37 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 37r-41r
Title:: Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinae, in Latin and Irish (Books I, II.1,2), imperfect
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Febris est calor innaturalis mutatus in ignem'; ends imperfectly: 'ised is tuitim fhuilt ann flux min an fuilt gan chion lenda.' A scribal note follows: 'Ataim triamaoinech o'rér' (f. 41r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 42v-43r
Title:: A collection of definitions and maxims, incipit: 'Doctrina est propositura rei demonstraciones partes explicans...'
Scope & Content:: The manuscript title of this collection reads: 'Axiomata quaedam philosophica' (added by a later hand).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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