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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:: A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:: Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:: Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:: Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 63 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: f. 2r: A title-page. f. 2v: A table of contents. ff. 4r-20v: Anonymous, Chronica de veteribus Brittanis et Anglo-Saxonibus (Chronicle on the Old Britons and Anglo-Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 144-217
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: ff. 144r-144v: A Latin inscription followed by a fragment from a letter in English referring to the inhabitants of Dalham, 17th century. f. 145r: A drawing of king W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, f 7v
Title:: Hyginus, Astronomica (extract), incipit: 'Arietis exortu sinistra pars'.
Scope & Content:: An extract from Hyginus, Astronomica, listing the constellations of the Zodiac, appended with 2 additional notes. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 1*r-1*v
Title:: Tables of contents
Scope & Content:: Two sets of tables of contents. The first one is in the hand of Simon Bredon (f. 1*r), the second one was added in Merton College, Oxford (f. 1v*). F.1*r also contains notes and astrological signs by John Dee.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 1*v-1r
Title:: Notes on astronomy
Scope & Content:: Several notes on astronomy, the two longest ones begin: 'Item libellum quod intitulatur Tholomao...', and 'Forma stellata...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1425
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 1v-6v
Title:: Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from the Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (Kitab suwar al-kawakib) in a Latin translation
Scope & Content:: The tables extracted from Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi (b. 903, d. 986), Book of the constellations of the fixed stars, an adaptation of Ptolemy's catalogue of stars from the Almagest, but without descriptions of the constellations.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 8r-84v
Title:: Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili), Elementa astronomica, in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona.
Scope & Content:: Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili), Elementa astronomica, in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: Large initial with pen-flourished decoration including foliate motifs in red and blue, with a partial border, at the beginning of the text (f. 8r). Puzzle initials ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 72 folios.

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