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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
Title:: Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 863

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1009, ff 28r-29r
Title:: William Rede (?), Canon tabularum de invencione astensionis in circulo obliquo cuiuslibet gradus zodiaci et stelle...
Scope & Content:: William Rede (?), Canon tabularum de invencione astensionis in circulo obliquo cuiuslibet gradus zodiaci et stelle..., incipit: 'Intra gradi cum signo...', with a table.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th-early 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1790, ff 102v-130v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Extracts from Plato in Greek and Latin. Taken from Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Theages, Theaetetus, Sophista, Phaedrus. Reversing the volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 29 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2253, ff 49r-142v
Title:: Miscellany of (the 'Harley Lyrics')
Scope & Content:: Miscellany of texts including secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics') in English, Anglo-Norman, and Latin. This part of the manuscript (except for folio 52v) was written by the so-called 'Harley scribe', active in or near Ludlow (Southern Shropshire) from 1314 to c. 1349...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1340
Extent:: 95 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 52r-52v
Title:: Martianus Capella, Quo magnitudo terrae depraensa est, extract from the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (VI, 598)
Scope & Content:: Martianus Capella, Quo magnitudo terrae depraensa est, extract from the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (VI, 598).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 29r-36v
Title:: Texts on astrology, astronomy, medicine and alchemy
Scope & Content:: Miscellanous texts, imperfect, copied by a professional Norfolk scribe for Crophill's use, including: 1. ff. 29r-33r: Short texts relating to astrology, astronomy and cosmology; imperfect at the beginning. A text on perilous days in the year starting at '[…] þe first day of clene August, þe fi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1484
Extent:: 8 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2510, ff 132r-135v
Title:: Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 7.
Scope & Content:: Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on book 7 of Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 13th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville. Decoration: Initials in red. Added marginal drawing of a couple embracing (f. 42r). Astronomical tables: ff. 29r, 29v, 30v, 44r, 46r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1171
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 31v-32v
Title:: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum); Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis (John of Seville) or Johannes (David) Toletanus (12th century). Rubric (f. 31v): 'Incipit epistola aristotilis qui / scripsit ad Alexandrum regem', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 2 folios.

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