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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 85r-123r
Title:: Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili), commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest, Almagesti Minoros libri IV
Scope & Content:: Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili), commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest, Almagesti Minoros libri IV. Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourished decoration in red and purple (ff. 85, 94, 100, 111v). Initials and paraphs in red or blue. Diagrams relating to math...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 38 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, f 1v
Title:: A recipe for making colours: extract from the Mappae clavicula
Scope & Content:: A recipe for making colours: an extract from the Mappae clavicula, incipit: 'Ad conficiendum cinobrium; Item ad conficiendum lazurium.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 115v-119v
Title:: Excerpts from the Liber de coloribus and Mappae clavicula
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from the Liber de coloribus and Mappae clavicula, incipit: 'in vermiculo quarta pars minii addenda est…'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 37r-41r
Title:: Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinae, in Latin and Irish (Books I, II.1,2), imperfect
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Febris est calor innaturalis mutatus in ignem'; ends imperfectly: 'ised is tuitim fhuilt ann flux min an fuilt gan chion lenda.' A scribal note follows: 'Ataim triamaoinech o'rér' (f. 41r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 1r-11r
Title:: A fragment from a cartulary from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: A fragment from a cartulary from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, (imperfect), including: Pope Innocent III, confirmation of privilege given at the Abbey (ff. 1r-2v), beginning: 'Innocentius episcopus servus servorum dei Hugoni abbati monasterii Sanctorum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1811, ff 37r-37v
Title:: A note describing a table of the signs of the Zodiac
Scope & Content:: A note describing a table of the signs of the Zodiac, incipit: 'Illa tabula de signis xii docet...'; perhaps referring to the volvelle diagram on f. 36r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 1r-6r
Title:: Grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination.
Scope & Content:: A grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r, ff 54v-57r
Title:: Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli
Scope & Content:: Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli. Prologue 'Rectangulum in remedium tediosi & difficilis operis', rubric 'Capitulum primum de arte componendi tibiam primam', incipit: 'Ad componendum igitur rectangulum, separemus laminam', explicit (f. 57r) 'ponimus istic finem', followed (f. 57r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 509, ff 1v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Dedication of elegies by Wye Saltonstall to Sir Thomas Middleton.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1640
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 270, ff 123r-149v
Title:: Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius
Scope & Content:: Liber de simplici medicina or Circa instans attributed to Matthaeus Platearius. Title (f. 123r) 'Incipit liber platearij de simplici medicina', prologue incipit: 'Circa instans negotium in simplicibus medicinis / nostrum versatur propositum'; table of contents for letters A and B, text incipit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 26 folios.

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