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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1835
Title:: Notes relating to the history of the Fiennes family
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing notes made by Nathaniel Fiennes, Colonel and MP, relating to the name Fiennes and the history of the Fiennes family. These notes are taken mostly from public records. For more of the notes of Nathaniel Fiennes, see Harley MS 1834.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 91v-94v
Title:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De hiis quae indigent expositione antequam legitur Almagestum
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De hiis quae indigent expositione antequam legitur Almagestum. Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'E'(quator) in colours and gold, with a partial border and a monkey eating a fruit, at the beginning of the text (f. 91r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B, ff 1r-44v
Title:: Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium; Liber de herba vettonica, attributed to Pseudo-Antonius Musa; and Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum
Scope & Content:: The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations of three Latin herbals dating from the 4th century. The remedies from the three texts have been merged and rearranged alphabetically according to the Latin names of the herbs. Title (f. 1r) 'A Saxon Herball' added by a 17th-century hand....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 44 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r
Title:: Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, books 8 and 6 (known as The Seven-Book Computus), also in the margins of ff. 16r-16v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1000
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1790, ff 2r-8v
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Scope & Content:: Richard Byfield, Speech in praise of rhetoric, delivered at Oxford, 3 Dec. 1657.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 194r-195r
Title:: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum); Imperfect. Rubric 'Epistula Aristotelis ad regem Alexandrum de sanitate / vite per annum', incipit: 'Alexander cum sit hominis corpus corrupti/bile', explicit: 'abundancia non uti n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3704, ff 35r-83v
Title:: Excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle's works
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle's works, beginning with an excerpt from Aristotle, Physica. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red. Includes 2 diagrams in the margins (ff. 51r, 51v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1339-c 1340
Extent:: 48 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, f 142v
Title:: A recipe for making ink
Scope & Content:: A recipe for making ink, incipit: 'Aliter est modus faciendi bonum incaustum...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 147r-147v
Title:: Two recipes, one for spiced wine
Scope & Content:: Two recipes: 1. incipit: 'Cura de cant...' (?); 2. a recipe for spiced wine, incipit: 'Cum vis facere claretum...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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