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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.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4972
Title:: Apocalypse, Prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Apocalypse in French prose, with prologue of Gilbert de la Porrée (a folio is missing between ff. 31 and 32); ff. 43r-47v: Prophétie de la sibylle Tiburtine (Prophecy of the Tenth or Tiburtine Sibyl); the last folio of this text is now in Bodley MS Douce 308. The text ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1275-1325
Extent:: A parchment codex, 47 folios

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

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

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

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878, ff 62r-65v
Title:: Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemeo
Scope & Content:: Les traicte des armilles pour verifier des estoires selon la tradition de Ptholemeo. Decoration: 2 diagramatic images of the sphere (ff. 63v, 65r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878, ff 66r-74r
Title:: Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous notes on astrological and astronomical subjects including 13 sections: De l'instruction des ephemerides et usage d'icelles (ff. 66r-67r); La regle du mouvement horaire des planettes (ff. 67r-67v); Comment il faut supptier les aspects de la lune... (ff. 67v-68r); De l'equation des i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 9 folios

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