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131. Harley MS 5325

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5325
Title:
Helperic of Auxerre, Computus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a fragment from an unidentified scientific text written in a 13th-century hand. ff. 1r-56v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus. Decoration: Initials in blue or red, some with foliate motifs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
late 11th century-early 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

132. Harley MS 5402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5402
Title:
Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:
Includes: A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v); Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r); Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r); 5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin: Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1160-1340
Extent:
104 folios.

133. Harley MS 5404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5404
Title:
Euclid, Elementa (translated by Adelard of Bath)
Scope & Content:
Contains books 1-12 of Euclid's Elementa, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath. Text lacking (the end of 1.33 through the beginning of 1.37) between ff 16v and 17r. Geometric diagrams drawn in the margins in black ink illustrate principles of the text. Twelve puzzle initials in red and blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

134. Harley MS 5425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5425
Title:
Ars Commentata (Galen, Commentaries on the Ars Medicinae)
Scope & Content:
Ars Commentata, or Galen's commentaries on the Ars Medicinae. An early copy of the collection of medical texts and commentaries generally known as the Ars Commentata that was put together around 1250 as part of the curriculum for medical teaching at university. The manuscript was written in Pari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

175 folios.

135. Harley MS 5771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5771
Title:
Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance
Scope & Content:
Includes the copy of the Élévation des eaux, a treatise on hydrostatics and hydraulic that Sir Samuel Morland dedicated in 1683 to Louis XIV, king of France. The text was first published in print in 1685 in Paris. Decoration: The text on each page is written within a golden or blue frame with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1683
Extent:

1 volume

136. Harley MS 6001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6001
Title:
Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. c. 1595, d. 1654).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:
1 volume

137. Harley MS 6002

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6002
Title:
Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:
1 volume

138. Harley MS 6046

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6046
Title:
Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes commentaries on Aristotle's Physica, De anima, Parva naturalia, a commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Aristotle's De coelo, De ortu et interitu, and Tractatus meteorologicus. The first three commentaries on Aristotle are preceded by printed docume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1605-1606
Extent:

1 volume

139. Harley MS 6083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6083
Title:
Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:
Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1654
Extent:

1 volume

140. Harley MS 6258 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6258 B
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, translations and recipes. Contents as follows: 1. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium (ff. 1r-44r); 2. Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes and remedies in Old English and Latin (ff. 44v-51r); 3. Peri didaxeon (ff. 51v-66v)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

1 volume