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Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 278
Title:: Hugh of Fouilloy, Aviarium; a Bestiary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Hugh of Fouilloy or Hugo de Folieto (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1172), prior of St.-Nicholas-de-Regny, Aviarium, or De avibus, consisting of 60 chapters in two sections: 37 chapters of mostly scriptural exegesis, drawing on the Bible and the Greek Physiologus. The first 11 chapt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 314
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with a treatise on geomancy and an account of a necromantic ritual
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400), together with a treatise on geomancy, an account of a necromantic ritual, and a fragment of a baptismal office from a 13th-century missal. It has been suggested that the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 324
Title:: Michael Apostolis, Oratio ad Discipulos Suos, autograph copy
Scope & Content:: Autograph copy of an invective by Michael Apostolis, Greek humanist, directed against his student Emmanuel Atramyttenos and another Emmanuel (possibly, Manuel Gregoropoulos, according to Barker p. 14). Tit. Μιχαήλου Ἀποστόλη τοῦ Βυζαντίου, Λόγος κατὰ Ἐμμανουηλοῖν μιαρωτάτοιν αὐτοῦ φοιτηταῖν, τοῦ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1460?
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 345
Title:: A compendium of medical and scientific texts with a calendar
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Reyner Oesterhusen, Doctor of Deventer, Holland, Compendium medicinale, with a prologue addressed to the Bishop of Utrecht, with the title, 'Compendiu[m] q[ui]dda[m] medici[n]ale Reyneri Oesterhusen dave[n]trie[n]sis utile curatori egrotanti Et volenti servare sanitatem'; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 361
Title:: Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-50: Speculum humanæ salvationis, consisting of the Prologue and Prohemium (ff. 1r-3v), 42 chapters consisting of 4 text columns each, with 4 miniatures above (ff. 4v-46r) and 3 final chapters without illustrations, consisting of the Seven Stations of the Passion, the Seven Sorr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 446
Title:: Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-104v: Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, entitled 'Astronomiae aphorismi', including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' (ff. 50r, 56r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 702
Title:: Collection of texts, excerpts and notes on astrology and astronomy, with accompanying tables and diagrams
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions and former shelfmarks. ff. 1v-33v: A collection of texts, excerpts and brief notes on astrology and astronomy, using or citing authorities including Al-Qabisi (or Alcabitius), Mashallah ibn Athari (or Messahallah), Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (or Album...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 823
Title:: Michael Wallace, poem on the Gunpowder Plot
Scope & Content:: Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by Michael Wallace, Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow. With marginal corrections and notes. Printed in 1606 by Richard Field, as Michael Valesius [Wallace], In serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae, &c monarchae. Ab imma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1605-1606
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1009/1
Title:: Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1009/2
Title:: Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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