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261. Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:
Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:
Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-1484
Extent:
8 folios

262. Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1735, ff 36v-52v
Title:
John Crophill, Notebook
Scope & Content:
John Crophill's autograph notebook with notes spanning the period 1456-1485: for notes relating to specific years (ff. 37v, 38, 40v, 46v, 47r, 50v), see Ayoub 1994. The contents of the notebook are as follows: 1. Latin expressions and their English equivalents (ff. 36v, 52v), 2. Lists of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1456-1485
Extent:
17 folios

263. Harley MS 1737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1737
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, with some later, mainly 13th-century glosses (ff. 1r-33r). Imperfect, incipit: 'ulla in re ratio utriusque latitudinis...' Decoration: Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, 1 full-page diagram added at the end (f. 33v). Initials in red or brown, occas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
33 folios.

264. Harley MS 1811

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar with canons, and other astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Leaves from an antiphonary or breviary used as flyleaves (ff. 1r-2v); 2. Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar (ff. 3r-33v); 3. Nicholas of Lynn, abbreviated calendar canons, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...' (ff. 34r-36v); 4. Prognostication text (ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
After 1387-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

265. Harley MS 1811, ff 1r-2v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 1r-2v
Title:
Antiphonary or breviary (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Leaves from an antiphonary or a breviary were used as flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript. The leaves at the beginning start with chants for 1st and 2nd Sunday in Lent. Space was left for a musical notation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

266. Harley MS 1811, ff 3r-33v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 3r-33v
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar
Scope & Content:
The astronomical calendar composed by Nicholas of Lynn (fl. 1386–1411), Carmelite friar and astronomer of Oxford. A note, by Thomas Allen, (1540?–1632), mathematician and antiquary of Gloucester Hall, Oxford (f. 31r), according to the Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808), reads: 'Hoc calenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
After 1387-early 15th century
Extent:
31 folios.

267. Harley MS 1811, ff 34r-36v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 34r-36v
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Calendar canons (abbreviation)
Scope & Content:
An abbreviation of the calendar canon by Nicholas of Lynn, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...'; with 2 astrological diagrams (ff. 35v, 36r), one of which is in the form of a volvelle (f. 36r). Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

268. Harley MS 1811, ff 36v-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 36v-37r
Title:
A prognostication
Scope & Content:
A prognostication text, incipit: 'Si Nativitas Domini die dominica...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

269. Harley MS 1811, ff 37r-37v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 37r-37v
Title:
A note describing a table of the signs of the Zodiac
Scope & Content:
A note describing a table of the signs of the Zodiac, incipit: 'Illa tabula de signis xii docet...'; perhaps referring to the volvelle diagram on f. 36r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

270. Harley MS 1811, ff 37v-38v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 37v-38v
Title:
A note concerning the use of astronomical tables and a calendar
Scope & Content:
A note concerning the use of astronomical tables and a calendar, incipit: 'Tamen si quis eius verum locum...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.

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