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1. Harley MS 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1
Title:
Treatises on astronomy, astrology, mathematics and geometry
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Table of contents, f. 1v; Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum (ff. 2r-15v); Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (ff. 16r-17r); Thebit ben Corat, De figura sectore (ff. 17r-18v); Thebit ben Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250 - c 1324
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
Scope & Content:
The volume is composed of two parts that comprise: Isidore of Seville Etymologiae (ff. 1r-149r), and Alexander Neckam Corrogationes Promethei (ff. 150r-196r). The manuscript also includes a title and a table of contents (ff. 1*v-2*r) added on two flyleaves at the beginning of the book.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 13
Title:
Scientific miscellany
Scope & Content:
The volume is composed of 6 semi-independent parts (ff. 3r-128r; 129r-140r; 141r-164v; 165r-198v; 199r-230; 231r-241v). It was probably made for John of London (fl. c. 1290- c. 1330), the first recorded owner of the manuscript. The manuscript includes: 1. Flyleaf with ownership inscriptions ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-16th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55
Title:
Anglo-Saxon miscellany including medical remedies and Anglo-Saxon laws by Edgar and Cnut
Scope & Content:
The volume is made up of fragments from two different manuscripts. The first fragment (ff. 1r-4v; unit A) probably formed the end of the original manuscript, and includes: Bald, Leechbook, book 2, chapter 59 (ff. 1r-3r); Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975) (ff. 3v-4v); Oswald, archbishop of Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 57
Title:
Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 2r-25v) and an excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna (ff. 26r-27v). A small parchment label pasted on f. 1r includes a 14th-century inscription providing a table of contents for the volume signed by an early owner...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 76
Title:
The ‘Bury Gospels’
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–5r: Jerome, Letter to Damasus (‘Novum opus’) and prologue to the Gospels. ff. 6r–12v: Canon Tables. ff. 13r–126v: Four Gospels (opening leaf excised). ff. 126v–137v: Capitula to the Gospels. The remainder of the leaves (ff. 137v–141v) were originally left blank, and filled in at a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1020-c 1030
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Harley MS 79

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 79
Title:
Statuta Angliae; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1r-26r and 27r-46v) and includes: 1. Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford, 1302 (ff. 1r-1v); 2. Statuta Angliae (ff. 2r-26r); 3. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus (ff. 27r-46r). 4. Medical recipes (f. 46v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1499
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 80

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 80
Title:
Collection of texts on astronomy, optics, astrology and stones from a Merton College manuscript
Scope & Content:
This composite volume is formed by five parts (1-5), of which items 2-4 are identifiable as independent booklets or libelli. 1. ff. 1r-57r: the first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises texts by Roger Bacon, (De Scientia Perspectiva, ff. 1r-33v) and Richard of Wallingford, (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-1499
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 208
Title:
Letters of Alcuin and Dungal
Scope & Content:
Contents: Alcuin, Epistolae (91 letters) (ff. 1r-112r); Two added letters, incipit: 'Eximiae indolis honore fulgido...'; and 'Praeconio eximiae sanctitatis recolendo Domino R episcoporum sanctissimo divina miseratione Wilelmus devotus episcopus' (f. 112r); Dungalus, Epistolae (5 letters) (ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 213

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 213
Title:
Alcuin, Expositio in Ecclesiasten with prologue by Alcuin; Alcuin, Carmina lxxvi; Pseudo-Alcuin, Vox ecclesie (a commentary on the Song of Songs); Augustine's homily De disciplina Christiana; Anonymous, Homily (extracts from Gregory homiliae .xl. in Evangelia)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Alcuin, Prologue to the Expositio in Ecclesiasten. ff. 4r-99r: Alcuin, Expositio in Ecclesiasten. Chapter 3 ends on the middle of f. 30v. Five underlined lined linked to Chapter 3 at the beginning of chapter 4 (f. 31r). Chapter 7 ends imperfectly on f. 57r (f. 57 remains b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

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