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71. Harley MS 3475

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3475
Title:
Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia dedicated to Augustino Maffei (b. 1431, d. 1496), Apostolic scriptor and curial official, humanist collector of books and antiquities by the author Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Italian humanist (b. 1421,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1462-c 1466
Extent:
1 volume

72. Harley MS 3487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3487
Title:
Aristotle, Libri naturales
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

73. Harley MS 3535

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535
Title:
Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes veterinary tracts relating to horses, written mostly in the Sicilian dialect. Contents as follows: Table of contents (ff. 1r-1v); Lu libru di la maniscalchia, translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (ff. 2r-36r); Notes on veterinary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
156 folios

74. Harley MS 3595

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3595
Title:
Works on mathematics: Boethius, De arithmetica. Scholia in Germanicum Sangermanensia. Boethius, De musica (imperfect). Treatise on Euclidean geometry attributed to Boethius; Geometria incerti auctoris; Mensura fistularum.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century-Mid 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 73 folios.

75. Harley MS 3631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3631
Title:
Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Works on astronomy
Scope & Content:
Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville (ff. 1r-57r); Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville (ff. 58r-110r); Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1171-1464
Extent:
113 folios

76. Harley MS 3647

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3647
Title:
Astronomical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Collection of astronomical texts including: Tabula Gerlandi with a canon (ff. 2v-3v); Balduinus de Mardochio, Compotus manualis (ff. 4r-7v); Tables of Fnugo and Bede with canons (ff. 7v-10r); Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium (ff. 10v-16v); Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (ff. 17r-22r); Joh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
225 folios.

77. Harley MS 3662

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3662
Title:
Petrus de Crescentiis (Pietro de’ Crescenzi), Ruralia commoda.
Scope & Content:
Petrus de Crescentiis, Ruralia commoda, imperfect (5 folios excised at the beginning), incipit: '...montes et terras frigidas...' Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and black with pen-flourished decoration in black extending into the margin (f. 46r). Initials in blue with pen-flourished decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
107 folios.

78. Harley MS 3704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3704
Title:
Collection of excerpts from Aristotle and from commentaries on Aristotle's works
Scope & Content:
Collection of excerpts from Aristotle and from commentaries on Aristotle's works, divided into two parts (ff. 1r-34v and 35r-83v). Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1339-c 1340
Extent:
83 folios

79. Harley MS 3706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3706
Title:
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary
Scope & Content:
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary; imperfect. The short version of the famous collection of didactic verse (360 verses) on health, diet, and medicine put together for oral transmission by doctors at the School of Salerno and assembled in written form with an anonymous commentary in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

86 folios.

80. Harley MS 3717

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3717
Title:
Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes De naturis rerum by Thomas of Cantimpré, in the first shorter version of 19 books, written between 1228 and 1244. The core of the book (ff. 36r-130v) of c. 1230-1240, and the added section at the beginning (ff. 2r-33v) of c. 1250 date from the author's lifetime. The manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1230-c 1450
Extent:
159 folios.