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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley Ms 57, ff 2r-25v
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals, stones and metals, and was probably composed in stages between 1248 and 1262. Rubric 'Incipit liber primus mineralium qui est ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v
Title:: Excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna
Scope & Content:: The manuscript also includes a fragment from the 'Distinctiones de vita eterna', a collection of concordances of biblical sentences, imperfect; incipit: 'In euangelio super illum locum faciamus hic tria tabernacula' (Math. 17: 4), explicit: 'Dixit custos. Venit mane et nox. Si queritis' (Isaiah ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 76, ff 1-137v
Title:: Gospels (the 'Bury Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Gospels (the 'Bury Gospels'). Contents: 1. Prefatory material including: Jerome, Epistle to Damasus, incipit: '[I]n novum opus' (ff. 1v-2v); Jerome, Prologue, incipit: 'Plures fuisse' (ff. 2v-3v); Eusebius, Epistle to Carpianus (ff. 3v-4r); and Hieronimus, Epistle to Damasus, incipit: 'Scientum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 137 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 76, ff 137v-141v
Title:: Charters relating to the abbey of Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:: 1. Text concerning a dispute between Gundulph, bishop of Rochester, and Picot, sheriff of Grandebruge, incipit: 'Tempore Willelmi regis anglorum magni patris Willelmi regis eiusdem genus fuit quedam contentio inter Gundulphum refensem episcopum' (f. 137v); 2. Charter of Cnut, incipit: 'In nomin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v
Title:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford of 1302: inscribed 'Tempore fr[at]ris Joh[an]is de Weybur[n] abb[at]is Osen[sis] a festo s[anc]ti Egidii Anno domini m ccc ii' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1302-c 1320
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r
Title:: Statuta Angliae (Vetera Statuta)
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises the texts of Magna Carta and of the Charter of Forest as reissued by Henry III in 1225, followed by a number of Statutes of England; imperfect, incipit (f. 2r): 'Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie Dux Normannie et Aquitanie / Archiepiscopis … salutem. Sciatis qu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 27r-46r
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus, imperfect. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals and metals, and was probably composed in various stages between 1248 and 1262. According to Wyckoff (Albertus Magnus, B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 20 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Texts on mathematics and geometry
Scope & Content:: The first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises: Roger Bacon, De Scientia Perspectiva (ff. 1r-33v); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis (ff. 34r-54r) and Tractatus rectanguli (ff. 54v-57r). Decoration: Chapter initials (3 lines; ff. 1r-8v and 34r-57r) in blue, with p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1499
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 58r-74v
Title:: Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), Texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: The second unit relates to and contains two texts by Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), De interrogationibus or Liber introductorius ad astrologiam (ff. 58r-68r), and De Electionibus (ff. 68v-74r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

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