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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v
Title:: Texts on astronomy and the making of talismans
Scope & Content:: The third unit of the manuscript relating to astronomy and to the making of talismans includes: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra) De imaginibus (ff. 75r-76r); De imaginibus super facies signorum, attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) (ff. 76r-77v); Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 85r-98r
Title:: Texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit of the manuscript relates to astronomy and contains: Jean de Lignières [Jean de Picard], Canones (ff. 85r-93r); Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis (ff. 94r-97r); Notes relating to astronomy and the quadrant (ff. 98r-98...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 99r-106r
Title:: Texts on alchemy, theology, birds and trees, and the making of talismans
Scope & Content:: The fifth unit of the manuscript relates to alchemy and consists of treatises relating to alchemy, theology, birds and trees, and the making of talismans: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de Gemmis (ff. 99r-101v); 'Figurae divisionis' (f. 102v); Anonymous treatise on precious stones (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 82, ff 1-3
Title:: A register of Reading abbey
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–3v: Three leaves from a register of Abbot Nicholas of Whapelode (r. 1305–28), containing entries for 1305–1311. [ff. 1v-2r are blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 82, ff 4–34
Title:: Usuard, Martyrology
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r–34v: Usuard, Martyrology, organized by calendar (January through December, ff. 4r–32v) with a second section by the church year (beginning with Advent, ff. 32v–34v). Many sections lacking. Decoration: Large and small initials that alternate in colour between red, blue, and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 82, ff 35-104
Title:: 'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer (Latin translation)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 35r–104v: ‘Sir John Mandeville’, Voyage d’outre mer, Latin translation, ending imperfectly. Decoration: A marginal drawing in brown ink (possibly of one of the nails of the Crucifixion) in the margin of f. 35v
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 1r-1v, 56r-56v
Title:: Fragment of a gradual
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 110, ff. 1 and 56 contain fragments of a gradual with musical notation made in the mid-eleventh century, possibly at the Old Minster, Winchester (Bell, Music (2001), p. 59). The gradual appears to have been trimmed from its original dimensions to form endleaves for Harley MS 110, ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: mid-11th century
Extent:: 2 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper, Pseudo-Prosper, or Paulinus, Poema coniugis ad uxorem [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no.531]; Isidore, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a group of patristic texts which have been glossed in both Latin and Old English. Most of the glosses seem to be contemporary, with a few eleventh-century glosses (Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 304). The style of the initials suggest that the manuscript was written at Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 10th century
Extent:: 53 parchment folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 56r-56v
Title:: Fragment of a gradual
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 110, ff. 1 and 56 contain fragments of a gradual with musical notation made in the mid-eleventh century, possibly at the Old Minster, Winchester (Bell, Music (2001), p. 59). The graudal appears to have been trimmed from its original dimensions to form end leaves for Harley MS 110, ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: mid-11th century
Extent:: 1 folio

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