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41. Harley MS 2320

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320
Title:
Miscellany of treatises relating to prognostication, astrology and braiding in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The miscellany comprises texts on prognostication, astrology and braiding. Medical recipes and other notes were added at a later stage to the endleaves (ff. 71r, 74r). Contents include: 1. Calendar (ff. 1r-4v); 2. Prognostication attributed to Bartholomew of Parma (ff. 5r-30v); 3. A lunar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Harley MS 2332

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2332
Title:
Illustrated almanac
Scope & Content:
A small illustrated almanac produced during the time of Henry IV (r. 1399-1413). The manuscript includes: Calendar (ff. 1v-13r); Table of dominical letters (ff. 13v-14r); Solar eclipse diagrams from 1411 to 1479 (ff. 14v-15r); Lunar eclipse diagrams from 1406 to 1481 (ff. 15v-17r); Zodia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1411-1412
Extent:

1 volume

43. Harley MS 2378

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378
Title:
Miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes. It was probably assembled by Nicholas Spalding, its 15th-century owner (his ex-libris on f. 135v and his name on ff. 5r and 61v). The two larger collections of medical recipes in the book (ff. 17r-61v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1722
Extent:
1 volume

44. Harley MS 2506

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2506
Title:
Collection of astronomical and astrological treatises
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Hyginus, De astronomia (ff. 1r-30r); 2. Priscian, De duodecim signis (ff. 30r-30v); 3. Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum (ff. 30v-32r); 4. De nominibus stellarum (ff. 33r-35r); 5. Marcus Tullius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 990-c 1000
Extent:
93 folios.

45. Harley MS 2510

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2510
Title:
Miscellany of texts on rhetoric, astrology and mathematics.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of 4 parts (ff. 1r-123v; 124r-131v; 132r-135v; 136r-167v). Part 1 is a palimpsest in late Carolingian script and the text and some of the coloured initials are still partly visible (ff. 1r-123v). f. 123 is the end flyleaf of part 1. Contents: Marcus Tullius Cicero,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century-early 13th century
Extent:
167 folios.

46. Harley MS 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558
Title:
Thomas Fayreford, Medical miscellany and commonplace book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of botanical, surgical, medical, magical, astrological and prognostication texts written in the 13th-14th centuries and assembled with his own autograph additions by the 15th-century English physician, Thomas Fayreford. The texts include: 1. Two dictiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
227 folios.

47. Harley MS 2579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2579
Title:
Miscellany including Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a humanistic miscellany including: Pseudo-Ovidius, Liber facetus (ff. 1r-12r); Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 13r-66r); M. Porcius Cato, De re rustica or De agri cultura (ff. 67r-115r). Decoration: Large initials in colours and gold with foliate decoration (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
116 folios.

48. Harley MS 2650

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2650
Title:
Martianus Capella, De astronomia and Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 8 (De astronomia) (ff. 1r-33v); Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis, montium et fluminum (fragment of carmen 134 Adelae Comitissae, v. 749-945) (ff. 33v-37r); Astro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

39 folios.

49. Harley MS 2651

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2651
Title:
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum. The manuscript is a humanistic copy of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs written under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The author is generally identified with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:

44 folios.

50. Harley MS 2660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2660
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text. Isidore of Seville's De natura rerum (ff. 33r-48v), a short treatise on physics, astronomy and geography, composed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1136
Extent:
175 folios.