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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 122r-123r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'N'(os) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 122r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 165r-173r
Title:: Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum)
Scope & Content:: Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum). Includes a 16th-century marking with maniculae, possibly by John Dee (see Barker-Benfield, 2008). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'O'(mnes) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'o' (f. 165r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r
Title:: Astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon'
Scope & Content:: An astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon', incipit: 'Notandum est that in eu..y(?) ingenient there ben 4 things to be sowght'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r
Title:: Hippocrates, Aphorismata
Scope & Content:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates in seven books in Latin and Irish. The Latin version is that of Nicholaus Leonicenus, the Italian physician and humanist (b. 1428, d. 1524), which was first printed in 1524. Each Latin aphorism is followed by an Irish translation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 37 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402, ff 26v-54v
Title:: Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), De interrogationibus
Scope & Content:: Zahel's De interrogationibus. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 29 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6509, ff 134r-135v
Title:: Passion of St Fidelis, Exantus, and Carpophorus
Scope & Content:: The Passion of St Fidelis, Exantus, and Carpophorus, entitled: 'Passio beatissimi Fidelis martiris', incipit: 'In illis diebus dum Maximianus sacrilegus imperator mediolanensi urbe resideret'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3735, ff 3v-5r
Title:: Bede, De natura rerum (extract)
Scope & Content:: An extract from Bede, De natura rerum, with two unfinished diagrams.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1264-1293
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 43v-58r
Title:: Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (71 chapters)
Scope & Content:: Rubric 'Incipit liber medicine Dioscoridis ex herbis femininis numero .lxxi. per / singula nomina. Nomen herbe Afrise frigida vocatur', with chapter number in the margin '[cx]lii.', incipit: 'Nascitur in montuosis et lapidosis locis et / arenosis solia', explicit: '[rubric 'Nomen herbe Aperine',...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

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