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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 136r-136v
Title:: Medical recipes (8 recipes)
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (8 recipes). Rubric 'For þe rede flixe', incipit: 'Take a penny wyhte of lapis caluminaris'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 4767.00.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 169r-181v
Title:: Secreta Alberti
Scope & Content:: Secreta Alberti. This text, also known as Experimenta Alberti or Liber aggregationis, relates to herbs, stones and animals used in medicine and was partly compiled from De mineralibus of Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian. Prologue 'Sjcut vult philosophus in pluri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 181v-182v
Title:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis
Scope & Content:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis. Rubric 'Incipiunt ii experimenta de corio serpentis / translata a Johanne Paulino', incipit: 'Cum ego Johannes Paulinus essem in / Alexandriam civitatem egyptiorum / reperi', explicit: 'Expliciunt 12 experimenta / extratta de libro Alcani qui salus vite voc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 182v-183r
Title:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis
Scope & Content:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis. Title (f. 182v) 'Incipiunt ludi nature regis Salomonis quos / (f. 183r) misit regine', incipit (f. 183r): 'Ad faciendam aquam comburentem'. Another copy is Sloane MS 121 (ff. 90v-92r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2392
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2421
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2427
Title:: Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
Scope & Content:: Language : Hebrew The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation. Tehilim. תהילים Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1799
Extent:: 161 folios (ii+161+iii)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2493
Title:: Titus Livius, Ab Urbe condita (the 'Codex Aginnensis')
Scope & Content:: The copy of Titus Livius, Ab Urbe condita known as 'Codex Aginnensis' or 'Codex Agenensis' because of the ownership inscription of the Jesuit College in Agen (f. 1r); imperfect, the initial and final quires are missing; incipit: 'ipsius quoque tribunis' (III lv 6); explicit: 'facinoris decus ad ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-c 1329
Extent:: 313 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506
Title:: Collection of astronomical and astrological treatises
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Hyginus, De astronomia (ff. 1r-30r); 2. Priscian, De duodecim signis (ff. 30r-30v); 3. Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum (ff. 30v-32r); 4. De nominibus stellarum (ff. 33r-35r); 5. Marcus Tullius...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990-c 1000
Extent:: 93 folios.

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