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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3535, f 36v
Title:: Notes on veterinary science
Scope & Content:: Notes on veterinary science, incipit: 'In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti amen'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v
Title:: Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali'
Scope & Content:: Veterinary tract in Italian (Sicilian dialect? with some Latin words and terms) entitled here (f. 40r) 'La medicina deli cavali'; Preface incipit (f. 41r): 'Dozarmu alluremi fia crucem + prima et + ingatur ecus passus'; with a table of contents (ff. 41v-43r); incipit (f. 43r): 'Allu nomi dideu i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 117 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3586, ff 2-66
Title:: Cartulary of Battle Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 2v–66v: Miscellaneous register, mainly comprising records of legal proceedings, forms of instruments, presentations to livings, manumissions and other acta of the abbey. Written in several stages over the course of the 14th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3586, ff 67-150
Title:: Cartulary of Wormsley Priory
Scope & Content:: f. 67r–v: Added table of headings showing that sections entitled Bulla privilegiorum and Confirmacio possessionum nostrarum et ordinacio ordinis nostri, with part of that for Wormsley, including copies of further royal and episcopal charters, are lacking at the beginning. ff. 68r–79r: First sec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1336-1380s
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 1r-48v
Title:: Boethius, De arithmetica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Boethius's De arithmetica,with interlinear and marginal glosses. Decoration: Initials in brown ink. Several drawings of geometric figures in brown or red ink (ff. 6r, 6v, 15r, 15v, 17r, 18r, 20r). Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, with a full page diagram added at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 50r-56v
Title:: Boethius, De musica (imperfect).
Scope & Content:: Boethius's De musica (imperfect), incipit: 'Quod infinitatem vocum humana...' (book 1, chap. 13-16); contains fragments of book 2; explicit: 'Liquet igitur eam proportionem in cclvi...' Decoration: Initials in brown ink, some tinted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 57r-68r
Title:: Euclidean Geometry in Latin attributed to Boethius.
Scope & Content:: Contents: This geometrical compilation was one of the fundamental textbook in geometry until the translation of Euclid's Elements. It was composed in the first half of the 11th century from several sources. During the Middle Ages it was attributed to Boethius, that is why since the edition of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 68r-73v
Title:: Geometria incerti auctoris; Mensura fistularum.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 68r-73r: A compilation of practical geometry written in the 9th or 10th century, generally called Geometria incerti auctoris since Nicolaus Bubnov's edition (see: Nicolaus Bubnov, Gerberti postea Silvestri II papae Opera Mathematica (972-1003) (Berlin: R. Friedländer and Sohn), pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 11th century
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, f 112r
Title:: Nicholas of Cusa, Autograph mathematical notes
Scope & Content:: Autograph mathematical notes and diagrams of Nicholas of Cusa (for transcription see Hallauer 1973).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425-1464
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville. Decoration: Initials in red. Added marginal drawing of a couple embracing (f. 42r). Astronomical tables: ff. 29r, 29v, 30v, 44r, 46r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1171
Extent:: 57 folios.

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