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81. Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 197r-223v
Title:
Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:
Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
27 folios.

82. Harley MS 3719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3719
Title:
Collection of astronomical, calendrical, medical and philosophical texts
Scope & Content:
A composite and miscellaneous volume including: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1v, 4v) referring to the present volume, and a table of contents relating to Gerardus Bituricensis' commentary on the Viaticum (ff. 2r-3r) from a different manuscript; 2. An astrological text (ff. 3v-4v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1275-1540
Extent:

283 folios.

83. Harley MS 3719, ff 155v-159r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3719, ff 155v-159r
Title:
Astrological diagrams
Scope & Content:
Astrological diagrams in colours including two volvelles (ff. 155v-156r) and a diagram showing moon phases (f. 157v). Bloodletting-zodiac man (ff. 158v-159r). The illustration combines the features of a bloodletting man with those of a zodiac man. Captions in Middle English written in alternati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
6 folios.

84. Harley MS 3719, ff 175v-177v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3719, ff 175v-177v
Title:
Pythagorean sphere with prognostication texts and diagrams
Scope & Content:
The Pythagorean sphere, a diagram of the sphere of life and death used in prognostications, preceded by the title 'Sphera Pictagore' (f. 175v), and followed by explanatory texts: a text in verse, 5 lines, incipit (f. 175v): 'Collige per numerum quicquid cupis esse probandum', explicit 'Quod ret...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

85. Harley MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3776
Title:
The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:
The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1345-1360s
Extent:

Parchment codex

86. Harley MS 3812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3812
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463
Extent:

5 folded folios.

87. Harley MS 3814 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A
Title:
Astronomical and astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1230-1399
Extent:
140 folios.

88. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v
Title:
Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Scope & Content:
Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
15 folios.

89. Harley MS 4486

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486
Title:
A treatise on alchemy and medicine, and the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
Two manuscripts bound together including a treatise on alchemy and medicine (ff. 1r-67r) and the Livre de Sydrac (ff. 69r-146r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1350-1631
Extent:
148 folios.

90. Harley MS 4866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4866
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes. The poem was composed in c. 1410-1411 and addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales (the future Henry V). This manuscript is one the early copies of the text and was possibly prepared under the supervision of Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1411-c 1420
Extent:

Parchment codex.

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