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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6046, f 1r
Title:: Theses philosophicae pro tertia ad baccalaureatum responsionae
Scope & Content:: Theses philosophicae pro tertia ad baccalaureatum responsionae is a list of subjects of theses in philosophy (logic and physics) from an unidentified Jesuit college. The Jesuit emblem is featured in the upper border of the page with a motto 'In nomine Iesu omne genu flectatur'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1606
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6309, ff 64-76v
Title:: Johannes Meursius the elder, Notes on the works attributed to Apollodorus. Imperfect at end. Autograph. Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v
Title:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford of 1302: inscribed 'Tempore fr[at]ris Joh[an]is de Weybur[n] abb[at]is Osen[sis] a festo s[anc]ti Egidii Anno domini m ccc ii' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1302-c 1320
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3091, ff 4v-6r
Title:: Astronomical tables with added notated proses
Scope & Content:: Astronomical tables (2nd half of the 9th century) with added notated proses 'Psallat unus' and 'Gloriosa dies adest' (f. 5r) and notated antiphons and responsories for the Office of St Denis (f. 5v-6r). Musical notation: neumes, northern France, 10th century (ff. 5v-6r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3969, ff 97r-105v
Title:: De phisiognomia (imperfect: missing text at the beginning)
Scope & Content:: Incipit: '...pigri temulenti. processu a temporis et hoc genere phisiognomiam...' Decoration: 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:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 117r-131r
Title:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat
Scope & Content:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat in the table of contents, incipit: 'Diem? omni in horarum...' F. 119r is a palimpsest. The text was written over an erased diagram. A part of a similar unfinished diagram is on f. 131v. Decoration: Initials in blue. 12 diagram...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios, followed by two unfoliated leaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 36r-48v
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena)
Scope & Content:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena). Decoration: 21 images of constellation figures painted by an Anglo-Saxon artist of the Ramsey Psalter (Harley MS 2904) working on the continent (ff. 36r-44v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 167r-172v
Title:: Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium (see ff. 72v-124v); Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: with figure of division (f. 167r) 'Urina fit multa'. The notes include: (a) three excerpts from the Doom of Urine in Middle English, incipit respectively (f. 168v) 'Urine of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3091, ff 22r-40r
Title:: Lunar and calendrical notes and astronomical tables
Scope & Content:: Lunar and calendrical notes and astronomical tables including: a table entitled 'Cursus lunae per XII signa' (f. 22r) astronomical calendar with added notes, 10th century (ff. 22r-28r); Tables of the 19-year Metonic cycle from 532 to 1057, with additions from 1058 to 1272, including additional n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3799
Title:: Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna Canon Medicinae, Book 1, Fen I
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of the 11-volume set containing the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458) on the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona) (c. 1113/4-1187). T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1475
Extent:: 335 folios.

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