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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 56v-64r
Title:: Gargilius Martialis, Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 56v) 'De Rafano', incipit: 'Rafanum calidam inesse virtutem omnium medicorum opinione compertum est sed et nobis / intellegere de usu eius licet', explicit (f. 64r): 'dato per hanc potionem mi/re ob viam posse. si plusquam necesse sit purget'. Edited in Gargilius Martialis 2002.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 64r-66r
Title:: Theodorus Priscianus, Diaeta, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 64r): 'De natura frumenti chernin', incipit: 'Ordei natura est frigida et humecta. Sucus eius si candidus fuerit / ventrem purgat', explicit: 'servata aqua marina / (f. 66r) bromos non colligitur … ut temperetur vicissitudine eius'. Edition of the text: K. Sudhoff, 'Diaeta Theodori'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 66r-66v
Title:: A text relating to clysters
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 66r): 'De clisteribus', incipit: 'Ad clistrem [sic] quod greci apoteon vocant alii ipodericon id est iniectatorium / per anum', explicit: '[rubric 'Enema ad flegma solvendum'] ... de oleo ovum plenum cunmisce tepidum inicias'. Followed (ff. 66v-67r) by a recipe, rubric: 'Potio ad ova c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 67r-68v
Title:: Additions to bestiary
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 67) 'De Leone et eius remedio', incipit: 'Qui habuerit carnes leonis fantasma non patietur', explicit (f. 68v): '[rubric 'De hyrundine'] … et in oculos mittes aut foris in/ungues probatum est'. The text is listed in Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 68v-80r
Title:: Medical recipes (c. 170 recipes).
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 68v) 'Confectio cidonii medicinalium ad digerendum et ad stomachum dirigendum', incipit: 'Citonus purgatis accipe liber .ii. citonia namque ipsa infundis ad vesperam in aceto'; rubric (ff. 79r-79v) 'Potio aristolabea quam composuit aristolabius rex … efficacissime emendare non dubitat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4987
Title:: Visio Tnugdali; Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes; Regula Beati Augustini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitiones; Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 and 1; Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini;Pope Innocent III, Liber de contemptu mundi; Libellus de septem artibus philosophiae coelestis; Ambrose, De Virginitate
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts that were copied by a single hand. Its contents strongly resemble those of Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 109 [CIX], as described by Henry Octavius Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus (Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4988
Title:: Reports in the Court of the Queen's Bench
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Reports in the Court of the Queen's Bench, 21-34 Elizabeth [1578/1579-1591/1592]; written in Law French.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1578-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4990
Title:: Collection of historical papers, including orations to Henry VIII and decrees of the Star Chamber
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. ii recto: 'Tracts of divers Natures vide Indicem. fo: VI' f. iii recto: Table of contents. f. iv recto: A title page: 'An Oration in Commendatioun of the Lawes cheiflye of the lawes of this moste noble Realme of Englande'. ff. 1r-2r: An oration of John Hales (b. 1469/70, d. ? ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1580s-1590s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4993
Title:: Orthographia Gallica; Ars Dictaminis; formularies of letter-writing; formularies of charters; Liber Cartarum et Obligationibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: A 17th-century title deed from Robert Pepper to Richard Pleiyters. ff. 2r-7v: Formularies of letter-writing. ff. 9r-22r: Ars Dictaminis or Miscellaneous Collections of Letters, possibly by Thomas Sampson. f. 22r: Orthographia Gallica. ff. 22v-24r: Formularies of charter...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4994
Title:: Collection of foreign state papers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-261r: Collection of foreign state papers, including copies of letters and official documents from Holy Roman Emperors and Popes, with references to the work of Johann Sleidan (b. 1506, d. 1556) added in marginal annotations. For an item-level description, see A Catalogue of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

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