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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 175v-194v
Title:: Theodosius, De spheris
Scope & Content:: Theodosius, De spheris (in a Latin translation). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'S'(pera) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 's' in the margin (f. 175v). Includes a series of geometrical diagrams of the sphere (ff. 176r-177r), some unfinished (ff. 177v-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 20 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 195r-198r
Title:: Mileus (or Menelaus) of Alexandria, De figuris sphericis
Scope & Content:: Mileus (or Menelaus) of Alexandria, De figuris sphericis, in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'D'(e) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'd' in the margin (f. 195r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 4 folios + 2 unfoliated blank leaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 218v-228v
Title:: Messahala, Liber coniunctionis et receptionis in the Latin translation by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Messahala, Liber coniunctionis et receptionis in the Latin translation by John of Seville. Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'I'(nvenit) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 218v). Includes 2 diagrams in colours (ff. 227v, 228v), 2 added marginal diagrams in ink (ff. 220v, 22...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 229r-230r
Title:: John of Seville, Glossa super 60 propositionem Centiloquii Ptolemei
Scope & Content:: John of Seville, Glossa super 60 propositionem Centiloquii Ptolemei.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 231r-241v
Title:: Messahala, De motibus (De orbe)
Scope & Content:: Messahala, De motibus (De orbe) in the Latin translation perhaps by Gerard of Cremona. The text is imperfect, the last 16 words are written by a modern hand (16th century?). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'I'(ncipiat) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, f 4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Oswald, archbishop of York (972-992), a statement relating to alienated lands in Otley, Ripon and Sherburn-in-Elmet and of lands obtained for York by Archbishop Oscytel (d. 1071), Oswald's predecessor; with additions possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (1003-1016) and archbisho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1003-1023
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Bald's Leechbook (20 remedies), imperfect, incipit: 'Wið þære heal Fdeadan adle and hwanon seo cume seo adl cymð on þa swiðran healfe'; explicit: 'wæteres bollan / Fulne to gedrincanne'. The text corresponds to chapter 59 of book 2 of the 'Laecebok' or Leechbook, copied by Cild for Bald at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975), with the Latin title 'Lege Eadgari' added in the upper margin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Laws of King Cnut (r. 1016-1035). Decoration: Large initials (2-3 lines; ff. 5, 7v, 13) in red, paragraph initials touched in red, rubric (f. 5r) in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley Ms 57, ff 2r-25v
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals, stones and metals, and was probably composed in stages between 1248 and 1262. Rubric 'Incipit liber primus mineralium qui est ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

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