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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 121r-121v
Title:: Prayers of a mass for a priest.
Scope & Content:: Two prayers of a mass for a priest ('secreta' and 'ad completorium').
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v
Title:: Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Scope & Content:: Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4350, ff 30r-36v
Title:: Jordanus de Nemore, De plana sphaera (Demonstratio de plana spera; Planispherium)
Scope & Content:: Decoration: Historiated initial 'S'(pera) of an astronomer holding an astrolabe (?), at the beginning of the text (f. 31r). Initial in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue (f. 30r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5228, ff 102r-118v
Title:: Medical texts including recipes and texts relating to urine and uroscopy
Scope & Content:: The sixth unit includes: Short treatises relating to medicine including medical recipes (ff. 102r-109r, 109v-110r). Incipit (f. 102r): 'Contemplatio est rationis investigatio', incipit (f. 109r): 'Quoniam nulli vestrum opinor dubium esse homine ceteris animalibus digniorem'. Present copies are l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 85r-98r
Title:: Texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit of the manuscript relates to astronomy and contains: Jean de Lignières [Jean de Picard], Canones (ff. 85r-93r); Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis (ff. 94r-97r); Notes relating to astronomy and the quadrant (ff. 98r-98...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, f 7v
Title:: Hyginus, Astronomica (extract), incipit: 'Arietis exortu sinistra pars'.
Scope & Content:: An extract from Hyginus, Astronomica, listing the constellations of the Zodiac, appended with 2 additional notes. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, f 156r (item 1)
Title:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum
Scope & Content:: John Chrysostom, Super Matheum, chapter 3: 'Et ne velitis...'; incipit: 'Quid prodest ei quem sordidant, generatio clara'. Here attributed to Ambrose.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1, ff 64r-70v
Title:: Commentary on Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus.
Scope & Content:: An anonymous commentary on Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus, incipit: 'Computus est scientia etc.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 33r-47v
Title:: Ars minutiarum attributed to Richard of Geddinge
Scope & Content:: Ars minutiarum attributed to Richard of Geddinge, incipit: ‘Cum minor quantitas aliquotiens sumpta.’ These two quires originally formed part of a different manuscript. The beginning of the following text on f. 47v was crossed out and the word 'explicit' was provided in the margin by Roger Marsc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v
Title:: Weather prediction from Christmas day and Lunary
Scope & Content:: Weather prediction from Christmas day (f. 191r); Incipit: 'Die dominica si nativitas /dei/ evenerit / hyems bona et ventosa, estas / sicca et vindemie bone'. Other copies of the text in Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii (ff. 36r-36v) and Cotton MS Cleopatra B. ix (ff. 23r-24r), Egerton MS 2852 (ff. 108v-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

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