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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 185-191
Title:: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses, cities, churches and offices
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 185r–191v: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses and their cities, the churches of Rome, offices for cardinals, cardinal deacons, (arch)bishops, and patriarchs. Decoration: Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. 1 small initial in red with violet pen-flourish...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3704, ff 1r-34v
Title:: 'Sententie totius phisyce sermoncinalis et naturalis' (excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle)
Scope & Content:: Collection of excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle, entitled 'Sententie totius phisyce sermoncinalis et naturalis', beginning with an excerpt from Porphyry, Introductio in Aristotelis categorias, incipit: 'Cum sit necessarium grisarori...' Decoration: Initials and paraphs in r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1339
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 164v-173r
Title:: Al-Zarkali (Ibrahim bin Yahya an-Naqqash az-Zarqali al-Qurtubi, Abu Ishaq), Opus astrolabii (Saphea), in the Latin translation by William the Englishman.
Scope & Content:: Al-Zarkali (Ibrahim bin Yahya an-Naqqash az-Zarqali al-Qurtubi, Abu Ishaq), Opus astrolabii (Saphea), in the Latin translation by William the Englishman. Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with purple pen-flourishing. paraps in red or blue. 1 large unfinished circ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:: Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:: A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 143v-144v
Title:: A text on the preservation of health
Scope & Content:: A text on the preservation of health, incipit: 'Si quis corpus sanum custodere desiderat...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios; followed by a blank page.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531, ff 3r-142r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Greek-Latin lexicon. Very few entries, taken only from Aristophanes and Isocrates.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 140 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
Title:: Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
Scope & Content:: This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1100
Extent:: 19 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 315 ff 1r-39v
Title:: Fragment of the Canterbury Passionale
Scope & Content:: Contents: These folios come from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff. 29r-79r, and Harley MS 624, ff. 84r-143v. ff. 1r-15v: Osbern's Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan), imperfect. f. 15v: The miracl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 315

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