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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3490
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1444
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3528
Title:: A miscellany of alchemical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10v: An untitled collection of alchemical tracts in Latin, attributed by a later hand to Roger Bacon, Arnaldus de Villa Nova (Flos florum), Thomas Aquinas (‘lapis’), and Aristotle (Secretum secretorum); the text on f. 4r is partially in Middle English prose but has been crosse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3542
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collection of Alchemical and Medical Treatises and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect in parts. A composite and miscellaneous volume, its first part (ff. 1-94v; items 1-19) relates mainly to alchemy and includes: - a) Mirror of lights (ff. 1-14, imperfect; item ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3655
Title:: Registrum Brevium from the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 8r-199v: Registrum Brevium for the reign of King Richard II, beginning with a table of contents (ff. 8r-9v), entitled: 'Calendar brevium realium'. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Memorandum of Robert de la Mare, Lord of Llangennith in the Gower, Swansea, Sout...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3657
Title:: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-221v: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; with a table of contents on ff. 1r-2r; featuring some 15th-century marginal annotations in Latin. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 222r-222v: Notes on canon law [including the subjects of cemeteries and burials], beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3688
Title:: Cartulary of Missenden Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*v–2*r: Added sheet with a table of estimated conversions of weights and measures, in English (early 15th century). ff. 1r–15v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 16r–186v: General cartulary, compiled by Robert de Welwes and completed 20 Feb 1330 or 1331; arranged in sections, mainly top...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1330-1331
Extent:: Parchment codex

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.

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.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3724
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, the bull Laudabiliter, and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of miscellaneous texts in Latin and Middle English, written in Ireland during the 13th century. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an account of the landscape, history and people of Ireland, written by the historian Ger...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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