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61. Harley MS 3199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3199
Title:
Collection of computistical and musical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two independent parts (ff. 2r-94v and 95r-126v). The first part is a miscellany of treatises relating to computus and music, including: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus (ff. 2r-55v); Guido of Arezzo, De Constitutionibus in Musica (ff. 55v-56r); Guido of Arezzo, Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 3234

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3234
Title:
Philosophical texts and poems
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae (ff. 1r-41r); 2. Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi (ff. 42r-73v); 3. P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto (ff. 74r-109v); 4. Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum (ff. 110r-147v); 5. L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-1440
Extent:
151 folios.

63. Harley MS 3244

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3244
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2r-18v: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius. ff. 19r-26v: Alain de Lille, Liber Penitentialis, appended with 'De confessione' (f. 26r) and Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo de diversis (ff. 26r-26v). ff. 27r-33v: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1236-c 1250
Extent:
192 folios.

64. Harley MS 3263

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3263
Title:
Jean du Temps of Blois (Ioannes Temporarius), Organon Astronomicon ex hypothesibus Copernici extractum.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Jean du Temps of Blois (Ioannes Temporarius), Organon Astronomicon ex hypothesibus Copernici extractum. Decoration: 2 maps of the southern and northern hemispheres (ff. 2v-3r) in ink, brown and yellow. The contents consist of a series of tables, diagrams and volvelles ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4rt quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
89 folios.

65. Harley MS 3271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271
Title:
Collection of grammatical and computistical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous collection including: Grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination (ff. 1r-6r); The Tribal Hidage (f. 6v); Aelfric, Grammar (ff. 7r-90r); Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus (ff. 90r-92v); Grammatical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
129 folios.

66. Harley MS 3334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3334
Title:
Rolandus Capellutus Parmensis, De chirurgia
Scope & Content:
An imperfect copy of the surgical treatise, also known as 'Rolandina', written by Roland of Parma in the early 13th century. The text begins imperfectly with the prologue at (f. 1r): '[asserve]runt et arbori inverse assimulaverunt et a capite quasi a ra/dice simplici inceperunt'; table of conten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

61 folios.

67. Harley MS 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353
Title:
Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

68. Harley MS 3360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3360
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques
Scope & Content:
Thomas Hobbes's unpublished tract on optics, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques, dedicated to William Cavendish, marquis of Newcastle. It contains a title page (f. 1r), the dedication to Cavendish (ff. 2r-4r), a list of contents (ff. 5r-5v), and Hobbes's tract on optics in two parts (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1646
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 3394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3394
Title:
Andres de Vega, Fabrica Horologa Universal
Scope & Content:
Contains the Fabrica Horologa Universal, a work on dialling, by Andres de Vega, a confessor of Observant Franciscans in the province of Granada, which he dedicated to Luis de Guzmán, advisor to the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans of the province of Granada. The work on the manuscript prob...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 3414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3414
Title:
Theophrastus, De historia plantarum.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Theophrastus, De historia plantarum translated by Theodore Gaza of Thessaloniki, with the preface dedicated to Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455) for whom Theodore translated the Greek text into Latin (ff. 2r-4v). Decoration: Large initials in red with red pen-flourishing. Large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
216 folios.