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Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
- Record Id:
- 041-002054649
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002032705
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000264.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
- Title:
- Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
- Scope & Content:
- Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes et houseus ky corps ayent en saynt ? / quatre humurs', explicit: 'et garra ben per la grace den. / Issi finist le libel ypocras qui a Sesar promist de fere … de conustre urine et puys dela dolour de chef et des autres maus de cors'.
Other copies of the text are Sloane MS 1611 (ff. 143r-147v), Sloane MS 2401 (ff. 88v-96v), Sloane MS 2412, Sloane MS 3126 (ff. 25r-64v), Sloane MS 3550 (ff. 217r-219v). For the text, see Hunt 1987, no. 16, with further bibliography.
Followed (f. 184v) by a list of herbs drawn from the letter, providing Latin, Anglo-Norman and English equivalents, incipit: '[...] aloyne .i. wermod', explicit: 'trefoil anglice clover'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002032705
041-002054649 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2558 : Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v : Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2559]/040-002032705[0019]/041-002054649
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 15 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_2558 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1360
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Late 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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