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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 93r-113v
Title:: Grammatical treatise 'Dialogus de VIII partibus orationis'.
Scope & Content:: A grammatical treatise entitled 'Dialogus de VIII partibus orationis', incipit: 'Beatus quid est? Oratio est. Et quae pars orationis? Nomen.' An interpolation (?) on f. 102v includes a table of lucky and unlucky days of the moon, entitled 'De sanguine minuere.' Decoration: Large initial in red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 20 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 114r-115r
Title:: Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the invention of St Stephen, with grammatical notes.
Scope & Content:: Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the invention of the body of St Stephen (Inventio corporis Sancti Stephani ad vesperam), with grammatical notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r
Title:: Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt).
Scope & Content:: Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt). The Latin text and its Old English translation are integrated in the same column (ff. 115v-118r) or the translation is included as an interlinear gloss (ff. 118v-120r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 121r-121v
Title:: Prayers of a mass for a priest.
Scope & Content:: Two prayers of a mass for a priest ('secreta' and 'ad completorium').
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 122v-124r
Title:: Medicina Ypocratis.
Scope & Content:: A text entitled 'Medicina Ypocratis', incipit: 'Mense ianuarii non minuare sanguinem...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 128v-129r
Title:: De initio creaturae.
Scope & Content:: Title: 'De initio creature', incipit: 'Her maeg findan se ðe sécan wile. hu micel þaes gerageteles is..' The last section of the text gives the date 1032: ‘ðonne is nu fram frymþe ealle aúrnen. Syx þusend wintra. 7 an hund wintra. 7 etwa 7 þrytyg wintra. To ðaem eastrun. þe bið .IIII. non. Apr....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1032
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3334
Title:: Rolandus Capellutus Parmensis, De chirurgia
Scope & Content:: An imperfect copy of the surgical treatise, also known as 'Rolandina', written by Roland of Parma in the early 13th century. The text begins imperfectly with the prologue at (f. 1r): '[asserve]runt et arbori inverse assimulaverunt et a capite quasi a ra/dice simplici inceperunt'; table of conten...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 61 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353
Title:: Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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