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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 104r-115r
Title:: Ars fabricandi instrumentum horarum immobile quod vocatur Dialle
Scope & Content:: The text entitled Ars fabricandi instrumentum horarum immobile quod vocatur Dialle, incipit: 'Ut facias artificialiter...' This quire originally formed part of a different manuscript and bears a separate medieval foliation. Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and paraphs in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios and 1 page.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 117r-131r
Title:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat
Scope & Content:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat in the table of contents, incipit: 'Diem? omni in horarum...' F. 119r is a palimpsest. The text was written over an erased diagram. A part of a similar unfinished diagram is on f. 131v. Decoration: Initials in blue. 12 diagram...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios, followed by two unfoliated leaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 132r-132v
Title:: Astronomical text on making almanacs
Scope & Content:: Astronomical text on making almanacs, incipit 'Nota faciendi artificialis almanak planetarum', entitled in the margin 'Modus componendi almanak in brevis'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 133r-134r
Title:: 'Tractatus de naturiis planetarum'
Scope & Content:: Astronomical text listed in the table of contents as 'Tractatus de naturiis planetarum', incipit: 'Saturnus est primus que scripsimus...' Decoration: Initials in red. Includes two tables (ff. 133v, 133r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 134v-138v
Title:: Alkindus (al-Kindi), De mutatione temporum
Scope & Content:: Alkindus (al-Kindi), De mutatione temporum, here attributed to Dorotheus and listed as the 'Tractatus de imbribus et pluviis' in the table of contents. Decoration: Initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 139r-162v
Title:: Liber novem iudicum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Liber novem iudicum (imperfect). The text on ff. 156-162v was supplied by a diffferent, slightly later hand. Decoration: Initials in blue. Places left for diagrams (ff. 147v-149r, 150v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 163r-172v
Title:: Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford
Scope & Content:: Exafenon, attributed to Richard of Wallingford (entitled 'Liber fratris Perscrutatoris de impressionibus aeris' in the table of contents). Decoration: Initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532
Title:: A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, A Discourse of the Buisines of Ambyona in Anno Domini 1624, and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus (ff. 1r-4r); 2. Correspondence between Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and Sir Francis de Vere (ff. 6r-9v); 3. A Discourse of the B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 1r-4r
Title:: Poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus
Scope & Content:: A poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I, Hymnus pastoralis in laudem serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traductus, incipit: 'Nymphae, candidulae Nymphae...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1558-1603
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 532, ff 49r-52r
Title:: Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St. Martin's, Dover
Scope & Content:: Edward II's confirmation of William the Conqueror's charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire, and of a charter for St. Martin's, Dover . Edward II's confirmation of the charter for the priory of St. Mary, Andover, Hampshire is published in William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

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