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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1319, ff 79r-80v
Title:: Descriptions of the miniatures
Scope & Content:: Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (b. 1729, d. 1811) who is identified in the inscription on f. 79r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1767
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1498
Title:: Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1-129v: The manuscript preserves a series of four agreements (indentures) made on 16 July 1504 between Henry VII and the abbot and monks of Westminster Abbey concerning the King’s new burial chapel that was designed to replace an earlier structure at the east end of the church. T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1504
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1602
Title:: Collection of medical treatises, alchemical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of four separate codicological units with materials added to the beginning and the end, when the units appear to have been bound or kept together. Part 1 (ff. 3r-4v) contains a collection alchemical recipes that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1811, ff 34r-36v
Title:: Nicholas of Lynn, Calendar canons (abbreviation)
Scope & Content:: An abbreviation of the calendar canon by Nicholas of Lynn, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...'; with 2 astrological diagrams (ff. 35v, 36r), one of which is in the form of a volvelle (f. 36r). Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1879
Title:: Catalogues of the books of Henry Savile of Banke, Robert Bruce Cotton, and John Dee
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Catalogue of the library of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617) in English and Latin, written in the hand of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. f. 10v: List of books wanted by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, headed: 'Books I want', fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1583-c 1612
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, f 10v
Title:: Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac
Scope & Content:: Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac with headings 'To kuow the kylyng of the mons' and 'For the zodiack'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r
Title:: Astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon'
Scope & Content:: An astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon', incipit: 'Notandum est that in eu..y(?) ingenient there ben 4 things to be sowght'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 11r-29v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium, continuation of ff. 1r-8r. Includes rubrics as follows: 'Racio et climatum' (ff. 11r-11v); 'Off the nature and magnitude of cy [7] planets with the ordor of thebyns' (ff. 12r-12v); 'Off the debysion off the zodiack...' (ff. 13r); 'Off the disposicion of the xii signes' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

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