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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 88r-91r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De motu octavae sphaerae
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De motu octavae sphaerae. Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'I'(maginabor) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 88r). 1 diagram in red ink illustrating movements of the sphere (f. 90r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 94v-95v
Title:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De recta imaginatione sphaerae
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De recta imaginatione sphaerae. Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'N'(os) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 94v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4971, ff 4-41
Title:: Grammatical and legal tracts, letters and documents
Scope & Content:: f. 4r: Guide to French pronunciation. ff. 4r–6v: Orthographica Gallica (sometimes attributed to Thomas Sampson), with running commentary in Anglo-Norman on Latin rules and vocabulary lists (Dean 1999, nos. 287, 300). ff. 7r–9r: Outline of the responsibilites of a clerk of a manorial household,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5228, ff 132r-139r
Title:: Treatise relating to natural philosophy and the nature of elements
Scope & Content:: The eighth unit includes a treatise relating to natural philosophy and the nature of elements; incipit: 'Quoniam dicuntur elementa superiora in his inferioribus dominari'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v
Title:: (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
Scope & Content:: This copy includes only the first four chapters of the text according to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric 'De cervo', incipit: 'Cornu cervi habet virtutes ad omnes humores excitandos / in colliriis oculorum utuntur', explicit [rubric f. 62 'Ad oscidinem] (f. 62v): 'Caprie sevum ad fissuras l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5642, ff 1-8
Title:: Lists of verbs, nouns, etc., with Greek words written in Latin characters. Tit. INCIPIT DE ORATORE.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 0900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6312, ff 1-59v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Herodotus, Historiae Book I, with a few Latin marginal notes. Imperfect, expl. (1.98) ἐκ πάντων Μήδων καταλέξασθαι πρὸς.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: before 1449
Extent:: 59 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 123v-124v
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De quantitatibus stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De quantitatibus stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'P'(tholomeus) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 123v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v
Title:: Excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna
Scope & Content:: The manuscript also includes a fragment from the 'Distinctiones de vita eterna', a collection of concordances of biblical sentences, imperfect; incipit: 'In euangelio super illum locum faciamus hic tria tabernacula' (Math. 17: 4), explicit: 'Dixit custos. Venit mane et nox. Si queritis' (Isaiah ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 9r-9v
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, List of medical cases
Scope & Content:: List of Thomas Fayreford's medical cases with names of patients including over 100 named people cured by Fayreford. Title 'De curis factis per T. Ffayreforde in diversis locis', incipit: 'In primis in domina de Ponynges que habuit frenesim', explicit: 'item Johannes peterton'. Published in Jones...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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