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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6504
Title:: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-40r: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 40r: an inscription in a medieval hand on f. 40r: '[...] hic offert se et sivum librum Gulielmo ep[i]scop[o] nem[..]si[...]'. Numerous added annotations throughout, mainly in 15th-century h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 45
Title:: A Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–168r: A Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 168r–169r: Antiphons with English translations; including ‘O uirgo uirginum’, as well as a verse from the Te deum, ‘In te domine’; added in in the 2nd half of the 15th century. f. 170r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 201
Title:: Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle of English history
Scope & Content:: ff. 4r–161r: Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle of English history in rhyming couplets (metrical chronicle). Harley MS 201 was used by Thomas Hearne for his edition of Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, since it supplies text missing in British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A XI. Decoration: Full ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531
Title:: Miscellaneous texts on astronomy, astrology and meteorology
Scope & Content:: The manuscript was probably assembled before 1474 by the Cambridge scholar and physician Roger Marschall from 8 booklets of different dates and origin (ff. 1-32; 33-47; 48-63; 64-103 + i; 104-116 + ii; 117-131 + i; 132-172; 173-184). Texts included: Table of contents (f. 1*r); Iohannes de Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1272-1474
Extent:: 185 folios.

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.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5404
Title:: Euclid, Elementa (translated by Adelard of Bath)
Scope & Content:: Contains books 1-12 of Euclid's Elementa, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath. Text lacking (the end of 1.33 through the beginning of 1.37) between ff 16v and 17r. Geometric diagrams drawn in the margins in black ink illustrate principles of the text. Twelve puzzle initials in red and blue...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 766
Title:: Journal of the House of Lords, 12 February 1624-2 November 1624
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing a journal of the meetings of the House of Lords during the fourth Parliament of James I, known as the Happy Parliament, which ran from 19 February 1624-29 May 1624. The Parliament was due to meet again on 2 November 1624, but was prorogued.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 844
Title:: Copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton (Cheshire), 1518-1595
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Charters & Exemplificacions of Orders concerning Congleton. W: S:’. ff. 1r-29v: Collection of copies of charters and exemplifications of orders concerning Congleton in Cheshire, dated 1518-1595.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1595
Extent:: 1 volume

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