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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1800
Title:: Proverbia ac sententiae gallicae; Proverbes, sentences et mots dorez, recueillis des meilleurs autheurs qui ont escrit de cette matiere; Les fleurs de belles paroles sentences, proverbes, maximes, reigles, morales et politiques
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Proverbia ac sententiae gallicae. ff. 33r-42v: Proverbes, sentences et mots dorez, recueillis des meilleurs autheurs qui ont escrit de cette matiere. ff. 43r-60r: Les fleurs de belles paroles sentences, proverbes, maximes, reigles, morales et politiques. ff. 61r-73v: Mes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1886
Title:: Keimpe van Martena, Liber Terrarum of Frisia; charter of Caspar de Robles
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title page for an administrative work (‘debt book’) [not included in the manuscript] by Christoffel van Sternsee (b. 1525, d. 1560), bailiff of Harlingen (1549-1560), written in German: ‘Vermerkht des Haübtman Cristof van Sternsee: drosort zue harlingenn Im frieszlandt, Schul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1891
Title:: Hans Lencker, Perspectiva (Nuremberg: Gerlass, 1571); German treatises on gauging and perspective
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-36r: A printed work by Hans Lencker, Perspectiva: Hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben / mit exempeln eröffnet und an tag gegeben wird / ein newer besonder kurtzer / doch gerechter unnd sehr leichter weg / wie allerley ding/ es seyen Corpora / Gebew / oder was möglich zu erdenck...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1571-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2429
Title:: A German-Latvian dictionary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: A German-Latvian dictionary with example sentences, entitled: ‘Vocabularium Germanico-Curlandicum’ (f. 1r) or ‘Lellipses Wörter-Büchlein’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latvian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2943
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-15v: Prayer for communion, with a rubric: ‘Dit gebet selmen lesen als men wil gaen totten heiligen sacrament te ontfanghen’, beginning: ‘O overste priester ende gewaer biscop here ihesu criste die di selven offerste gode dinen vader’. ff. 15v-16r: Pra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1486
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3383
Title:: Collection of medical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A Middle English treatise on urine, beginning imperfectly: 'But yf the malyncole and the fleumatyk make þe suche than hy buthe yn a[…] oþer in a fever tercian. Nowe speke we of twey rede urynys with a whyte resydeus scheweth a man bue en a fever'; ending: 'and lete hyn use ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3469
Title:: Splendor Solis
Scope & Content:: Content: The manuscript contains the alchemical treatise Splendor Solis. Decoration: 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold with full borders. Very large calligraphic initials in gold. Capitals marked in gold. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 2r: The A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:: This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475 - c 1525
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3822/5
Title:: Fragments of letter and account books of German merchants
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26v: Fragments of a letter-book of a Leipzig merchant (?) relating to consignments of goods, including cloth, wine, etc, 10 March-2 August 1545. ff. 27r-48r: Fragments of a cloth (?) merchant's account book; no dates except a few months and days. The manuscript contains a l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1545-c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915
Title:: Collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts on techniques and technology of various arts
Scope & Content:: f. 1v: A recipe for making colours, an extract from the Mappae clavicula. ff. 2r-109v: Theophilus, De diversis artibus. ff. 109v-113v: Heraclius, De coloribus et artibus romanorum. ff. 114r-114v: De temperamento vesice escivi: an extract from a text on book illumination. ff. 114v-115v: De si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1200
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

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