Number

421

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Harley 585

Date

xi/xi and xi1

Origin

[unknown]

Provenance

[unknown]

Contents

• enlarged Herbarius*, part (pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius
• herbs from pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis and Curae herbarum)
• Medicina de quadrupedibus* (De taxone liber
• treatise on mulberry tree
• part of Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus)
• Lacnunga* (medical recipes, prayers, charms
• some in Latin and Irish), including Lorica of Laidcenn mac Baithº
• BCLL 294
• SK 15745] and Dies Ægyptiaci*

Bibliography

MSS

• Beccaria (1956) 249-50 [no. 75]
• Storms (1948) 16-24
• Grattan—Singer (1952) 207-9
• N.R. Ker (1957) no. 231
• De Vriend (1972) xxiii-xxvii
• C.E. Wright (1972) 88, 119, 382
• A.F. Cameron (1974) 222 and n. 27
• P.R. Robinson (1978) 234-5 [repr. P.R. Robinson (1994) 30]
• Backhouse et al. (1984b) no. 163 [Backhouse]
• De Vriend (1984) xxiii-xxviii
• Herren (1987) 3-8, 14
• Robinson—Stanley (1991) 24-5
• M.L. Cameron (1993) 59
• Laing (1993) 89
• Pulsiano (1998b) 109 n. 23
• ASMMF I (1994) 26-36 [no. 265
• Doane]
• Liuzza (2001) 185, 206
• Pettit (2001)
• Bredehoft (2004) 149-50, 152-5, 169
• Menzer (2004) 96 n. 4
• Shaw (2006) 98-105
• Chardonnens (2007b) 41, 528, 552
• R. Gameson (2012a) 18
• R. Gameson (2012b) 115 and n. 88
• Scragg (2012a) nos. 638-41
• Toswell (2012) 469 and n. 7

DEC

• F. Wormald (1945) 134, 135 [repr. F. Wormald (1984) 72, 75]
• R. Gameson (1995b) 89 n. 104, 230 n. 231

FACS

• Grattan—Singer (1952) after p. 94 [fol. 130r]
• De Vriend (1972) pl. III [fol. 106v]
• De Vriend (1984) pl. III [fol. 66v]
• G.H. Brown (1987) fig. 1 [fols. 182v-183r]
• T. Hunt (1991) I.47 [fol. 193v]
• Robinson—Stanley (1991) pls. 19.5.1-8 [fols. 160r-163v], 19.6.1-2 [fol. 167r], 197.1-3 [fols. 175r-176r], 19.8.1-2 [fols. 180v-181r], 19.9.1-2 [fol. 185r]
• ASMMF I (1994) no. 265
• Doane (1994) figs. 1-3 [fols. 175r, 175v, 176r]

ED

• Förster (1929) 271-3 [base MS (= H) for Dies Aegyptiaci]
• Dobbie (1942) 119-24 [base MS for OE metrical charms]
• Storms (1948) 140-2 [OE charms]
• Grattan—Singer (1952) 26-205 [base MS for Lacnunga]
• De Vriend (1972) [Medicina de quadrupedibus coll. as H]
• De Vriend (1984) 1-233 [Herbarium coll. as H], 234-52 [Medicina de quadrupedibus coll. as H]
• Herren (1987) 76-89 [Laidcenn, Lorica, coll. as H]
• Doane (1994) 134-45 [charm]
• Pettit (2001) vol. I [Lacnunga]
• Chardonnens (2007b) 342 [Dies Aegyptiaci]

LANG

• De Vriend (1984) lxviii-lxxiv

ST

• Storms (1948) 140-51
• Grattan—Singer (1952) 206-11
• Meaney (1984) 245, 255-64
• De Vriend (1984) 275-85 [textual notes], 286-338 [commentary]
• G.H. Brown (1987) 45-52
• Hollis—Wright (1992) 219-22, 272-86, 311-24
• Pettit (2001) vol. II
• Liuzza (2001) 222-3 [bibliography]
• Shaw (2006) [charms
• Against a Dwarf]
• Bezzo (2007) 437 n. 14
• Chardonnens (2010) 248
• C. Lee (2011) 148