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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2267
Title:: A manual of ritual magic
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-37v: A manual of ritual magic, copied from another late 16th-century manuscript, including sections for making the 'Pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ' (f. 1v); amulets for conjuring good and evil angels entitled 'What things are attributed to the planets' (ff. 2r-10v); 'On bin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2676
Title:: Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a very large white vine initial 'L'(ibros) in colours and gold at the beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1465-1467
Extent:: 356 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2943
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-15v: Prayer for communion, with a rubric: ‘Dit gebet selmen lesen als men wil gaen totten heiligen sacrament te ontfanghen’, beginning: ‘O overste priester ende gewaer biscop here ihesu criste die di selven offerste gode dinen vader’. ff. 15v-16r: Pra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1486
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3735
Title:: Treatises on astronomy and computus
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: Treatise on the Zodiac signs (imperfect) (f. 3r); Bede, De natura rerum (extract) (ff. 3v-5r); Treatise on calendar (f. 5v); Robert Grosseteste, Kalendarium (ff. 6r-12r); Tabula Gerlandi and other computistical tables (ff. 12v-15v); Notes on measurements (f. 16r); ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1264-1293
Extent:: 106 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4328
Title:: Life of Christ (books 6-10)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-486v: Life of Christ (books 6-10); this is the second volume of a set (see rubrics ff. 1r, 15v-16r, 16v, 486r). Decoration: 3 large miniatures in the style of the Master of Jacques de Luxembourg with full foliate borders including hybrid figures, heraldic arms and mottos, in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1468
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5531
Title:: Ba῾al ha-lashon by Joseph Zarka.
Scope & Content:: Language: Hebrew Grammatical writing. Author: Zarka, Joseph (זרקא, יוסף בן יהודה) Ba῾al ha-lashon. בעל הלשון Note: See Roth, ed Cecil. Jewish Art: An Illustrated History. [Edited by] Cecil Roth. Rev. [and enl.] ed. by Bezalel Narkiss.. Greenwich, Conn, New York Graphic Society 1971, 1971. p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew
Date Range:: 1474
Extent:: 286 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5727
Title:: Scholia on Homer, Iliad I-XIX.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5809
Title:: Pedigrees and arms of Derbyshire
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A list of the names of gentry with their arms blazoned, entitled :‘A note of the Armes of Certaine gents in Com. Derby and Nottingham anno 1569’. ff. 4r-87v: The seals of Derby and Chesterfield (dated 1611), pedigrees of families in Derbyshire with coats of arms and seal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 913
Title:: The Kildare Lyrics
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-2r: A theological tract. f. 3r-6v: The Land of Cokaygne ('Fur in see bi west Spaygne / Is a lond ihote Cokaygne'). f. 6v: Bissop lorles, kyng redeles (Abuses of the age). ff. 7r-8v: Hail seint Michel wiþ þe lange sper (Satire on the people of Kildare). ff. 9r-10r: Swet ihe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5644
Title:: Vitzentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos
Scope & Content:: Vitzentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos, in 15-syllable rhymed couplets. Printed in Venice in 1713 from a manuscript no longer extant. See Αλεξίου (1986). Preceded by (ff 1r-9r) an alphabetical index of contents.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1710
Extent:: 264 folios

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