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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 1r-48v
Title:: Boethius, De arithmetica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Boethius's De arithmetica,with interlinear and marginal glosses. Decoration: Initials in brown ink. Several drawings of geometric figures in brown or red ink (ff. 6r, 6v, 15r, 15v, 17r, 18r, 20r). Numerous tables and diagrams in red ink, with a full page diagram added at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 50r-56v
Title:: Boethius, De musica (imperfect).
Scope & Content:: Boethius's De musica (imperfect), incipit: 'Quod infinitatem vocum humana...' (book 1, chap. 13-16); contains fragments of book 2; explicit: 'Liquet igitur eam proportionem in cclvi...' Decoration: Initials in brown ink, some tinted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 57r-68r
Title:: Euclidean Geometry in Latin attributed to Boethius.
Scope & Content:: Contents: This geometrical compilation was one of the fundamental textbook in geometry until the translation of Euclid's Elements. It was composed in the first half of the 11th century from several sources. During the Middle Ages it was attributed to Boethius, that is why since the edition of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3595, ff 68r-73v
Title:: Geometria incerti auctoris; Mensura fistularum.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 68r-73r: A compilation of practical geometry written in the 9th or 10th century, generally called Geometria incerti auctoris since Nicolaus Bubnov's edition (see: Nicolaus Bubnov, Gerberti postea Silvestri II papae Opera Mathematica (972-1003) (Berlin: R. Friedländer and Sohn), pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 11th century
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 3595.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, f 112r
Title:: Nicholas of Cusa, Autograph mathematical notes
Scope & Content:: Autograph mathematical notes and diagrams of Nicholas of Cusa (for transcription see Hallauer 1973).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425-1464
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville. Decoration: Initials in red. Added marginal drawing of a couple embracing (f. 42r). Astronomical tables: ff. 29r, 29v, 30v, 44r, 46r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1171
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 58r-110r
Title:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville. Decoration: Space left for initials. Two large diagrams in ink (ff. 108r, 108v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-early 13th century
Extent:: 52 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 110r-111v
Title:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated by John of Seville (imperfect).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 112v-113r
Title:: Accounts from the collegiate church of St. Florin, Koblenz
Scope & Content:: Accounts from the collegiate church of St. Florin, Koblenz; dated 1425 and 1431.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1425-1431
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 2v-3v
Title:: Tabula Gerlandi with a canon
Scope & Content:: Tabula Gerlandi (based on Gerland's Computus) with a canon, incipit: 'Ad compositionem tabule principalis gerlandi...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 2 folios.

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