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1. Harley MS 3140

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Harley MS 3140
Title:
Articella
Scope & Content:
Ars Medicinae, the compilation of medical texts of Greek, Byzantine, and Arabic origin that is known as the Articella. Since the early 12th century most texts were translated into Latin by scholars in the circle of the medical school of Salerno, and became the basis of the medical curriculum in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 3140, ff 29r-32v

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Harley MS 3140, ff 29r-32v
Title:
Hippocrates, Prognosticon
Scope & Content:
Hippocrates, Prognosticon. The Latin translation of the work by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC) relating to acute illnesses and their treatments. The author of the present translation, made in the late 11th century from Arabic sources and not from the original text in Greek, is identifiable with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
4 folios.

3. Harley MS 3140, ff 2r-7r

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Harley MS 3140, ff 2r-7r
Title:
Johannitius, Isagoge
Scope & Content:
Johannitius, Isagoge. The Latin translation of a short compendium of medical theory traditionally attributed to a Syrian Nestorian doctor, Johannitius, purportedly the son or pupil of the medical commentator John of Alexandria (7th century). However, the original text was an Arabic compendium of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
6 folios + 1 flyleaf.

4. Harley MS 3140, ff 196r-254v

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Harley MS 3140, ff 196r-254v
Title:
Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum
Scope & Content:
The medical summa, traditionally called Viaticum, assembled by Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9). The Viaticum is the Latin adaptation of a standard medical manual, entitled Kitāb Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), composed by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
59 folios.

5. Harley MS 3140, ff 37v-39r

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Harley MS 3140, ff 37v-39r
Title:
Philaretus, De pulsibus
Scope & Content:
Philaretus, De pulsibus. The Latin translation of a treatise on pulses traditionally attributed to Philaretus or Philaretos (7th century), but which circulated in Byzantium anonymously or under the name of Galen. Title 'Incipit liber Philareti de negocio pul/suum', incipit: 'Intencionem habemus i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
3 folios.

6. Harley MS 3140, ff 255r-272v

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Harley MS 3140, ff 255r-272v
Title:
Nicholaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium
Scope & Content:
Nicholaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. A copy of a collection of remedies in alphabetical order called Antidotary and written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicholaus. His material derived from a collective oral tradition which had been put together i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
18 folios.

7. Harley MS 3140, ff 32v-37v

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Harley MS 3140, ff 32v-37v
Title:
Theophilus Protospatharius, De urinis
Scope & Content:
Theophilus Protospatharius, De urinis. The Latin translation of the treatise on urines composed by the Byzantine physician Theophilos Protospatharios (7th century), and translated from Greek into Latin around 1100. Title 'Incipit liber urinarum a voce Theophili editus', incipit: 'Be [sic] urinar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
6 folios.

8. Harley MS 3140, ff 44r-67v

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Harley MS 3140, ff 44r-67v
Title:
Isaac Judeus, Liber Urinarum
Scope & Content:
The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c.1020-1098/9) of an Arabic treatise on urines (Kitāb al-bawl) by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c.855-932), known to the West as Isaac Judaeus or Isaac Israeli, a Jewish doctor and philosopher, and physician of the Fatimid caliph ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
23 folios.

9. Harley MS 3140, ff 68r-110v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3140, ff 68r-110v
Title:
Isaac Judeus, Dietae universales
Scope & Content:
Isaac Judeus, Dietae universales. The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) of the first part of the treatise on simple drugs and diet (Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada wa-l-aghdiya) composed in Arabic by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c. 855-932), known to the W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
43 folios.

10. Harley MS 3140, ff 110v-137r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3140, ff 110v-137r
Title:
Isaac Judeus, Dietae particulares
Scope & Content:
Isaac Judeus, Dietae particulares. The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) of the second part of the treatise on simple drugs and diet (Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada wa-l-aghdiya) composed in Arabic by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c. 855-932), known in Eur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
38 folios.