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101. Harley MS 3812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3812
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463
Extent:

5 folded folios.

102. Harley MS 3843

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3843
Title:
Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: 1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v); 2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r); 3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

129 folios.

103. Harley MS 3849

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3849
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Composite medical miscellany including: Aegidius de Corbeil (Gilles de Corbeil), De urinis (ff. 2r-45r); Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica (ff. 46r-61v; imperfect); Collection relating to medicine, including works attributed to Urso of Calabria (ff. 62r-77v; imperfect).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

77 folios.

104. Harley MS 3892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3892
Title:
Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1454
Extent:
58 folios.

105. Harley MS 3915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3915
Title:
Collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts on techniques and technology of various arts
Scope & Content:
f. 1v: A recipe for making colours, an extract from the Mappae clavicula. ff. 2r-109v: Theophilus, De diversis artibus. ff. 109v-113v: Heraclius, De coloribus et artibus romanorum. ff. 114r-114v: De temperamento vesice escivi: an extract from a text on book illumination. ff. 114v-115v: De si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1150-1200
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

106. Harley MS 3941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was originally a single codex, but has been divided into two volumes, now Harley MS 3941/1 and Harley MS 3941/2. The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b. 599, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

2 volumes

107. Harley MS 3969

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3969
Title:
Works on history, natural history and rhetoric
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: William of Malmesbury, De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3r-40v); 5 works on orthography with a summarising 'explicit' note by William of Malmesbury (f. 62r): Cassiodorus Senator, De orthographia (ff. 41r-52r); Caprus, Liber de orthograp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
236 folios.

108. Harley MS 4114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4114
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on the Canon Medicine, Book 3, Fen iv-vi by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in its Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1486
Extent:

195 folios.

109. Harley MS 4235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4235
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. The manuscript includes: a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

110. Harley MS 4236

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4236
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in several manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. Another copy manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume