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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 75r-84v, ff 75r-76r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De imaginibus; a book of instructions for making talismans that was very popular in the Middle Age, and was translated by Adelard of Bath and by John of Spain. Begins imperfect in the middle of the third part of the tract, incipit: 'fuerit sol in aliqua digni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 76r-77v
Title:: De imaginibus super facies signorum, attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Scope & Content:: De imaginibus super facies signorum attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus, a work on engraved images which in the manuscript tradition often follows the work by Thebit. Rubric 'Opus Omaga/rum secundum / consilium ptolomeum [sic] et / est omnibus modis propior / et veracior in probatione quoniam eius ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 77v-81r
Title:: Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune
Scope & Content:: Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), Liber imaginum lune; Rubric 'Hic incipit liber ymaginum translatus ab Hermete, i Mercurie qui latine praestigium mercu/rii appellatur, heliemen in ling/ua Arabica', incipit: 'Cum enim sapiens indagator veritatis', explicit: 'dicitur thamahaleth. Explicit', rubri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v, ff 81-84v
Title:: Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), De quindecim stellis
Scope & Content:: Hermes Trismegistus, De quindecim stellis. A treatise on planets and stars. Rubric 'Incipit liber hermetis tractans de .15. stellis et de .15. lapidibus et de .15. herbis / et de .15. figuris', incipit: 'Inter multa alia bona que antiqui patres / sapientissimi narraverunt', explicit 'et per hunc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 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 85r-98r, ff 85r-93r
Title:: Jean de Lignières [Jean de Picard], Canones
Scope & Content:: Jean de Lignières [Jean de Picard], Canones; Canons for the use of the astronomical tables (an adaptation of the Alfonsine tables) drawn up by Jean de Lignières (Johannes de Lineriis) in Paris in 1321. Includes a note (f. 89r) referring to the works of John Holdrak, corrected in Holbrok in the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 85r-98r, ff 94r-97r
Title:: Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis
Scope & Content:: Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis; composed in 1288, corrected in 1301. The Latin version of a treatise on the canons of a new quadrant by Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (1236-1305), a Jewish scholar and astronomer of Marseilles and Montpel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: 4 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.

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