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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1675, ff 109-129v
Title:: Homer, Iliad, with Latin annotations. Not collated by Allen (see Allen Ilias vol. 1, Prolegomena, p.12 (Bm, l. 3 )).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: after 1590
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1676
Title:: Constantinus Africanus (Constantine the African), Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of the Kitāb Kāmil ('the complete' -...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 163 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1677
Title:: Pierre Gassendi: De Vita et Doctrina Epicuri. Books 8-11
Scope & Content:: Books 8-11 of De Vita et Doctrina Epicuri, by Pierre Gassendi. Book 8, finished March 1634, was for some time thought lost (Carla Rita Palmerino, ‘Pierre Gassendi’s De Philosophia Epicuri Universe Rediscovered’ (1999)). The work was re-used for Gassendi’s Syntagma philosophicum, and his De Vita...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1678
Title:: Registrum brevium for the reign of Richard II
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-334v: Registrum brevium for the reign of Richard II (r. 1377-1399). The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1r-11v: a table of contents; added in the 15th century. ff. 336v and 337v: added entries, one in French; written in the 15th century. Decoration: Large i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1680
Title:: French historical collection
Scope & Content:: Composite manuscript mostly of French historical tracts relating to the late seventeenth century. Contents: ff. 1-8: collection of over 200 medical recipes in Middle English, French, and Latin, 14th century. The English recipes probably translated from French or Anglo-Norman. Prologue inc. 'He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century to the late 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1681
Title:: Historical collections of Pierre Du Prat
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous historical collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). f. 1v: Portrait of De Gassion, engraved by Balthasar Moncornet. This may be the print formerly inserted in Harley MS 1589, which is no longer present – see description in A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1640s-1660s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1682
Title:: Ecclesiastical statutes relating to Wells Cathedral (dating from 1242 to 1351)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: 'Statuta Joscelini Episcopi' [16 November 1242]. ff. 2r-2v: 'Statuta edita tempore Joscelini Episcopi' [1241]. ff. 2v-5r: 'Statuta antiqua de Officio cujuslibet persone Ecclesie Cathedralis Wellensis'. ff. 5r-6r: 'Statuta edita per Decanum et Capitulum, tempore Willelmi ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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