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4582. Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v
- Title:
- Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
- Scope & Content:
- Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 6 folios.
4583. Harley MS 4978
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4978
- Title:
- St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4584. Harley MS 4979
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4979
- Title:
- Roman d'Alexandre in prose
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: This copy of the Roman d'Alexandre in prose is one of the three extant manuscripts of the 2nd recension, known as 'Redaction II'. The other two manuscripts are Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78.C.I and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 11040. Incipit (prologue): 'La terre de machido...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Old
- Date Range:
- c 1290-c 1300
- Extent:
- A parchment codex, 87 folios
4585. Harley MS 4980
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4980
- Title:
- Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi and other Alcuin's works
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of three parts of different origin and period, perhaps bound together in the 13th century in Carcassone, according to Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012). Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980' (1936) argues that 'textual and orthographic peculiarities' in th...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 8th century-9th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
4586. Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v
- Title:
- Fragment from Augustine, De civitate Dei
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine, De civitate Dei (City of God), Book 16 chapter 8 to 16. Decoration: A quire signature (f. 2v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 8th century
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 4980
4587. Harley MS 4980, ff 3-75
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4980, ff 3-75
- Title:
- Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r–75v: Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum (Commentary on Acts), beginning imperfectly: '[...] postulationis contempneretur auctoritas'. Decoration: Initials highlighted in red (oxidised) or/and yellow. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 9th century
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 4980
4588. Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
- Title:
- Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 76r-123r: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi (On faith in the Holy Trinity and on the incarnation of Christ), preceded by the dedicatory epistle (ff. 76v-78v) and capitula (ff. 78v-80v). ff. 123v-126r: Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem (Invocation...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 9th century
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 4980
4589. Harley MS 4981
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4981
- Title:
- The Old Testament Books of the Minor Prophets, with glosses
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 3r-112v: The Old Testament Books of the Minor Prophets, with glosses. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r: List of Old Testament kings; written in the late 12th or early 13th century. f. 1r: Note on the gloss, attributing it to Anselm of Canterbury, Ralph of Laon, a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4590. Harley MS 4982
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4982
- Title:
- Constantinus Africanus, Theorica Pantegni
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 13th century-Early 14th century
- Extent:
-
73 folios.