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181. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

182. Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v
Title:
De origine gigantum
Scope & Content:
De origine gigantum, a Latin abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman Des Grantz Geanz, a short narrative telling the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leaves may have been taken from a different manuscript. For the text see Carley and Crick 1995.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

183. Harley MS 941, ff 4r-5v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 4r-5v
Title:
Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins.
Scope & Content:
Short explanation of the decalogue followed by a text on the seven mortal sins, incipit: 'Idolatria, sortilegia, incantaciones'; see Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices 1100-1500, ed. by M. W. Bloomfield et al. The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 88 (Cambridge MA, 1979), n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

184. Harley MS 941, ff 6r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 6r-21r
Title:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi
Scope & Content:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
16 folios.

185. Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 21v-23v
Title:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English
Scope & Content:
'On the Times', verses in Latin and Middle English; see J. Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 1400/3, 3113/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

186. Harley MS 941, ff 27r-29r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 27r-29r
Title:
Astronomical and astrological diagrams
Scope & Content:
Astronomical and astrological diagrams of the planetary spheres (f. 27r); positions of the sun and earth (ff. 27r-27v); the universe with Hell in the centre (f. 28r); the zodiac, the longitude of the sun (f. 29r); a computistical volvelle to calculate Easter (f. 29v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

187. Harley MS 941, ff 30r-49v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 30r-49v
Title:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphera
Scope & Content:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphera.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
20 folios.

188. Harley MS 941, ff 50r-50v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 50r-50v
Title:
A note on the solar year
Scope & Content:
A note on the solar year, incipit: 'Nota quod annus solaris', with a diagram in ink (f. 50v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 folio.

189. Harley MS 941, ff 51r-58r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 51r-58r
Title:
Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio terminorum astronomiae
Scope & Content:
Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio terminorum astronomiae.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
8 folios.

190. Harley MS 941, ff 58r-61r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 58r-61r
Title:
Treatises on magic
Scope & Content:
Three short treatises on magic: Dorotheus Sidonius, Capitulum de occultatione anuli (f. 58r); Messahala, De occultis (ff. 58v-59v); Tractatus Dorothei in occultis (ff. 59v-61r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

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