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1. Harley MS 978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978
Title:
Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:
A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:
1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
14 folios.

3. Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 2)
Title:
La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Scope & Content:
La vie nostre dame seinte marie, incipit: 'Sachez que nostre dame fui de xii annzet vi mois...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1/2 column

4. 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.

5. Harley MS 4486, ff 1r-67r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4486, ff 1r-67r
Title:
Treatise on alchemy and medicine
Scope & Content:
Copied from the original dedicated to baron de Tracy (see f. 1r), first chapter: Secret compendium ou Memorial final en forme de Recapitulation sur mes precedents devis et chapitres, incipit: 'Preface dicel livre de chapitre premier. Noble de preux chevallier en qui toute bonte gist...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1631
Extent:
67 folios + 2 unfoliated leaves at the end.

6. Harley MS 5771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5771
Title:
Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance
Scope & Content:
Includes the copy of the Élévation des eaux, a treatise on hydrostatics and hydraulic that Sir Samuel Morland dedicated in 1683 to Louis XIV, king of France. The text was first published in print in 1685 in Paris. Decoration: The text on each page is written within a golden or blue frame with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1683
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 6083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6083
Title:
Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 6878

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6878
Title:
Astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:
Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde (ff. 3r-62r); Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemee (ff. 62r-65v); Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects (ff. 66r-64r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 6878, ff 1r-2r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6878, ff 1r-2r
Title:
Diagrams of the spheres
Scope & Content:
Diagrams of the spheres.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
2 folios (flyleaves).

10. Harley MS 6878, ff 3r-62r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6878, ff 3r-62r
Title:
Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde
Scope & Content:
Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde, a French translation of Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi, incipit: 'La sphere est un corps solide...' Decoration: Numerous images in ink showing divisions of the sphere, diagrams of celestial spheres, position of the Earth, eclipses of the sun and moon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
60 folios.