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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 119v-122r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'C' in gold and colours at the beginning of the text; with a guide letter 'e' and a letter 'e' correcting the initial in the margin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 122r-123r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'N'(os) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 122r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 123v-124v
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De quantitatibus stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De quantitatibus stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'P'(tholomeus) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 123v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 124v-128v
Title:: Jordanus de Nemore, De plana spera
Scope & Content:: Jordanus de Nemore, De plana spera. Decoration: An illuminated initial 'S'(peram) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 124v). Includes geometrical diagrams of the sphere in the margins (ff. 125v-128v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 129r-133v
Title:: Euclid, Catoptrica (sometimes also attributed to Jordanus de Nemore as De speculis)
Scope & Content:: Euclid, Catoptrica (sometimes also attributed to Jordanus de Nemore as De speculis). Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'V'(isum) of a scholar holding a mirror, at the beginning of the text; with an instruction for an illuminator reading 'miroer' (f. 129r). Includes a series of marginal diagra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 133v-140r
Title:: Jordanus de Nemore, De ratione ponderi (attributed to)
Scope & Content:: De ratione ponderi attributed to Jordanus de Nemore. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'O'(mnis) of a man holding a scales, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'o' in the margin (f. 133v). Includes a series of marginal diagrams (ff 133v-140r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 140r-140v
Title:: De sole
Scope & Content:: A text entitled 'De sole', incipit: 'Annis arabum 691 perfectis.' It contains predictions of eclipses of the sun for the years 1293-1311 and of the moon for the years 1293-1300.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 141r-164v
Title:: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium, with the commentary of Haly ibn Ridwan
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium, with the commentary of Haly ibn Ridwan. Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'S'(cientia) in colours and gold at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 's' in the margin (f. 141r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 165r-173r
Title:: Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum)
Scope & Content:: Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum). Includes a 16th-century marking with maniculae, possibly by John Dee (see Barker-Benfield, 2008). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'O'(mnes) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'o' (f. 165r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 173r-173v
Title:: Messahala, De cogitationibus ab intentione
Scope & Content:: Messahala, De cogitationibus ab intentione. Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'P'(recipit) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text with a quide letter 'p' in the marigin (f. 173r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 1 folio.

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