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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1306/1
Title:: The State Silk Museum's Collection of Photographs (1889-1910)
Scope & Content:: The State Silk Museum's collection of the printed individual photographs and photo albums from 19th-20th centuries. The photos depict process of silk production, ethnography, portraits, natural environment, architecture etc. The project digitised the following series: • EAP1306/1/1 Mulberry cu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1889-1910
Extent:: 447 tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 821
Title:: A collection of astrological, brontomantic, onomantic and oneiromantic treatises; astronomic and computistic texts; herbal remedies, charms and magical amulets.
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century scientific manuscript from Southern France contains a large number of prognostic treatises that are based on the principles of astrology, brontomancy (divination by thunder), onomancy (divination by names), and oneiromancy (dream divination), alongside computistical and astrono...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2900
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum; various medical tracts
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Viaticum (Provision for a Journey) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1020- d. 1098/9). This is a Latin adaptation of a standard medical manual in Arabic, entitled Kitab Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), by Ib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3314
Title:: Computational and astronomical notes; prognostics
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century scientific manuscript originally formed a single volume with Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff. 120-53 (see Willetts, 'A Reconstructed Astronomical Manuscript from Christ Church Library, Canterbury' (1965), 22-30). It contains a large collection of computistical, astronomical, and pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 72r-v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula Eburnea; Pseudo-Hippocrates, Indicia valetudinum
Scope & Content:: Contents: These two anonymous texts deal with medical prognostics and indications of illnesses. ff. 72r-v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula Eburnea (Ivory Chest), beginning: 'Peritissimus omnium domestica sapientia in omnibus corporibus', ending: 'scias eum vivere egrotum'. f. 72v: Pseudo-Hippocr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 549
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 658
Title:: Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 12th-1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2637
Title:: Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:: Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 17r-22v
Title:: A circular diagram of the winds; John Scotus Eriugena, epitaph for Hincmar of Reims; Greek and Latin grammatical lists; Excerpt from Proverbs; Hymn to St Michael (with neumes)
Scope & Content:: This miscellanous collection of texts originally formed the initial gathering of Harley MS 3095, a 10th-century manuscript of Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524)'s works. A later scribe has added in the 11th century the hymn (ff. 17v-18r). This part includes: Contents: f. 17r: A circular diagram of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v
Title:: Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 55r-66v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De musica (On music), books 1-2, with marginal glosses, beginning: '[O]mnium quidem percepcio sensum'; ending: 'Nunc voluminis seriem fastidii vitator astringam'. Decoration: Space left for an initial at the beginning of the text. Initials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

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