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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 193r-193v
Title:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt
Scope & Content:: Somniale Danielis, excerpt. A copy of the medieval dream interpretation handbook. This fragment covers the letters A to C. Incipit: 'Qui interpretationem alicuius sompni inquirit / sic faciat'. Copies of the complete text are Additional MS 15236 (ff. 161v-168v); Cotton MS Tiberius A iii (ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2799
Title:: Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Job to Revelation)
Scope & Content:: Second volume of a Bible, known as 'The Arnstein Bible', including books from Job to Revelation. The first volume of this Bible is Harley MS 2798. Contents: f. 1r: Computistical diagram of a hand, with a note, incipit: 'Nemo deum pingit cuius manus'. ff. 1v-241r: Bible (Job to Revelation) inc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1172
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2820/1
Title:: Detached ivory panel from Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Ivory panel of the Crucifixion with the four symbols of the Evangelists and the Manus Dei from an earlier binding, now mounted in a post-1600 British Museum binding of brown leather, formerly attached to Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Ivory panel and binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3017, ff 66r-113r
Title:: Collection of computistical and astronomical excerpts
Scope & Content:: Collection of computistical and astronomical excerpts, incipit: 'Anni ergo sunt ab origine mundi usque ad nativitatem Christi sicut in Orosio legitur VCXCVIIII...'; including diagrams of the phases of the moon (f. 80r), 'Horologium viatorum' (f. 88r), 'Annus - Mundus - Homo' diagram (ff. 89v, 92...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 47 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3140, ff 273r-274v
Title:: Aegidius de Corbeil, De urinis
Scope & Content:: Aegidius de Corbeil, De urinis. The verse summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Theophilus's treatise on urines compiled to help students in the memorisation of the diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Dicitur urina quoniam fit renibus una', explicit: 'Fimbria monstretur qu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3360
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques
Scope & Content:: Thomas Hobbes's unpublished tract on optics, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques, dedicated to William Cavendish, marquis of Newcastle. It contains a title page (f. 1r), the dedication to Cavendish (ff. 2r-4r), a list of contents (ff. 5r-5v), and Hobbes's tract on optics in two parts (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

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 3744, ff 138r-154v
Title:: Avicenna, Canon medicine, Book IV
Scope & Content:: Avicenna, Canon medicine, Book IV, Fen 1-2. Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis. Rubric (f. 138r): 'Incipit liber quartus canonis avicenne / fen prima de febre et sunt / quatuor tractatus / primus est de / febribus / effimeris', incipit: 'Febris est calor / extraneus accensus in corde', exp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3749
Title:: John Norden, Survey of the Honor of Windsor
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1607
Extent:: 1 volume

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