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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531
Title:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley, containing a Greek-Latin lexicon, a dictionary of mathematical terms, and miscellaneous notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 704
Title:: Kalendarium omnium feodorum militum que fuerunt Edmundi nuper Comitis Marchie; Kalendarium omnium Advocacionum, Abbaciarum, Prebendarum, Ecclesiarum, Capellarum, Hospitalium et Cantariarum, que fuerunt predicti nuper Comitis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Kalendarium omnium feodorum militum que fuerunt Edmundi nuper Comitis Marchie. ff. 15r-16v: Kalendarium omnium Advocacionum, Abbaciarum, Prebendarum, Ecclesiarum, Capellarum, Hospitalium et Cantariarum, que fuerunt predicti nuper Comitis.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595
Title:: Works on mathematics: Boethius, De arithmetica. Scholia in Germanicum Sangermanensia. Boethius, De musica (imperfect). Treatise on Euclidean geometry attributed to Boethius; Geometria incerti auctoris; Mensura fistularum.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 73 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6126
Title:: Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Devon and Somerset from Henry III to Edward III
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2*recto: ‘Perambulatio Forestae de Exmore in Com. Somers. et Devon in Turri London remanens'. f. 3*recto: An unidentified coat of arms with crest in a lozenge. ff. 1r-12r: 'Inter Inquisitiones post mortem: Anno 28 Regis Henrici Tertii. in Turre London. remanentes'. ff. 13r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1617
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1347
Title:: Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu sancto
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-205v: Diogenes Laertius (fl. ? 3rd century), Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, trans. by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439), theologian and friend of Nicholas of Cusa, for Cosimo de' Medici (b. 1389, d. 1464). ff. 206r-275r: Gregory of Nazianzus (b. 330, d. 390), Oration...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4500
Title:: Collection of French historical papers, including extracts from the work of Jehan Le Feron
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of various French historical papers produced by different scribes who were working separately at different moments in the 16th century. Contents: f. 1r: Untranscribed title inscription for the volume with the date 1565. ff. 2r-28r: Treaty of Cateau-Cambré...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5752
Title:: Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis; Jean de Bussières, Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (English translation)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-80v: Collectio Epithetorum ex Publii Virgilli Maronis (Latin); written in the 16th century. ff. 81v-95r: Jean de Bussières (b. 1607, d. 1678), Flosculi Historiarum Delibati (first published in 1649); an English translation of the universal history divided into fifteen epochs,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 885
Title:: Two drafts of a treatise by John Cusacke
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, containing two drafts of a treatise on royal power and heraldry by John Cusacke. Contents: ff. 2-45v: First copy of the treatise, here titled 'A Royall Presente; By way of Apology for the Defense of a Royall Emprese intiteled Aurea Periscellis which was presented unto h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1638
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3099
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:: The volume contains: 1. Isidore of Seville Etymologiae, an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text, preceded by (ff. 1r-3v) five letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (ff. 1v-153r); 2. Isidore of Seville, De natur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1130-1174
Extent:: 168 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3535
Title:: Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes veterinary tracts relating to horses, written mostly in the Sicilian dialect. Contents as follows: Table of contents (ff. 1r-1v); Lu libru di la maniscalchia, translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (ff. 2r-36r); Notes on veterinary ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 156 folios

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