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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3843, ff 13r-25v
Title:: Computus ecclesiasticus
Scope & Content:: Computus ecclesiasticus, incipit: 'Cum superior[um] motus omnia a quo infinis gubernantur'. Includes several circular diagrams in ink (ff. 13v-15v, 17r, 17v, 19r, 20r, 21r, 22v, 23v, 24r-25v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3969, ff 168r-196r
Title:: Phisicon Protheron
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'A multis prudentibus viris...' Decoration: Large foliate initial 'A', at the beginning of the text. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 29 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2274, ff 11r-17v
Title:: Liturgical office
Scope & Content:: Office for the Virgin Mary, with commentary. Begins: '[D]e modo dicendi psalterium gloriose virginis marie'. Ends: 'per maximis plurimorum summorum pontificum. Deo gracias'. (f. 17v: blank).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Seven leaves, bound together with the rest of Harley MS 2274

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3140, ff 39r-43v
Title:: Hippocrates, De regimine acutorum
Scope & Content:: The Latin translation of the De regimine acutorum or Regimen in Acute Diseases, a treatise on general medical precepts on pathology by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC). The translation, made from an Arabic version, is variously attributed to Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) and therefore t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3140, ff 274v-276v
Title:: Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses
Scope & Content:: Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses. The poetic summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Philaretus's treatise on pulses compiled to help university students in the memorisation of diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Ingenii vires modicis conatibus inpar', explicit: 'Iam sterilem cul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 3 folios + 2 flyleaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 44v-45r
Title:: De taxone liber
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 44v) 'De usu taxonis et aliarum / bestiarum', prologue incipit: 'De taxone quem Latini mele / dicunt Iapartus rex egiptiorum / Octavio suo salutem. Plurimis / exemplis experti sumus virtutes', explicit: 'quidam etiam / melen vocant', text incipit: 'Hunc apprehendens vivo dentes exime ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 10v-16v
Title:: Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium
Scope & Content:: Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium, with a canon, incipit: 'In hoc primationum ciclo...' Decoration: KL letters in gold and colours.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 97v-119v
Title:: Canons for Toledan tables
Scope & Content:: Canons for Toledan tables, incipit: 'Quonism cuiusque actionis quantitatem temporis metitur spatium...' Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'Q'(uoniam) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 97v) and 1 historiated initial 'Q'(uia) of a man with a telescope (f. 118r). 6 d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:: Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 80 folios.

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