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Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r
- Record Id:
- 041-002162300
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052106
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001754.0x000382
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r
- Title:
- Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes
- Scope & Content:
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Medicina de quadrupedibus. The text consists of the Old English translations of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century.
1. ff. 44v-45v: De taxone liber (c. 8 recipes). Prologue 'Þe Egypta king ['rexe / king/ rex' added in the margin] þe idpartus wæs hatan / Octaviano þan casere hys frunde hœlo', incipit: 'Sum nyten ws þt man nemned / taxonem', explicit: 'sona he byð gebeted'. Preceded by a partially erased and almost illegible rubric. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 183.00.
2. ff. 45v-46. De moro (3 recipes). Imperfect. A treatise on the healing powers of the mulberry. Incipit: 'Wið blodes / flewsan þanne mona sy seofontyne nyhta eald / æfter sunna setl gange', [with marginal rubric almost completely erased and illegible], explicit: 'þanne byð heo geclænsod'. Listed in Voigt and Kurtz 2006, no. 210.00.
3. ff. 45v-51r. Liber medicinae ex animalibus attributed to Sextus Placitus, Imperfect. The short version (A-version) of the treatise is imperfect and deals with only twelve animals. Rubric 'Medicina de cervo', incipit:'Wiþ nædran slite h\e/ortes horn hafeð / mægen', explicit: 'gedeon toðreomera / swylas gedwæsceþ'. Listed in Voigt and Kurtz 2006, no. 222.00.
Other copies are Cotton MS Vitellius C.III (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 585 (ff. 101v-114v; imperfect), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 76 (ff. 124v-130r). For the text see Cockayne 1864-66; Delcourt 1914; De Vriend 1984.
Also includes a collection of medical recipes:
1. f. 51r: Rubric 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Wið eafodece pollege þæt on englis dywrege dwolle wulle', explicit: 'and smyre þæt haefod mid'. Listed in Voigt and Kurtz 2006, no. 215.00.
2. f. 51v: c. seven herbal recipes in Old English and three others in Latin. Rubric 'De beta', incipit 'Wið ealda and singalum heafodece cnuca / þa wurd þat bete hatað, expl. 'and unget / nares and statim sedabitur'. Listed in Voigt and Kurtz 2006, no. 217.00.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052106
041-002162300 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6258 B : Medical miscellany
Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r : Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6262]/040-002052106[0002]/041-002162300
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 8 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_6258_b (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1160
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- Late 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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