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1621. Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r
Title:
Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, books 8 and 6 (known as The Seven-Book Computus), also in the margins of ff. 16r-16v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1000
Extent:

3 folios.

1622. Harley MS 866, f 48v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, f 48v
Title:
A treatise on chiromancy [imperfect], incipit: 'Benedictus Deus omnipotens qui machinam mundanam...'
Scope & Content:
Includes the beginning of a treatise on chiromancy. The same text is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 607.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 folio.

1623. Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:
Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:
A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
7 folios.

1624. Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r
Title:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones.
Scope & Content:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title: 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
9 folios.

1625. Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r
Title:
Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae.
Scope & Content:
Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae, an allegorical poem reflecting12th-century knowledge of natural sciences.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
17 folios.

1626. Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r
Title:
A treatise on rhetoric, incipit: 'Hiis visis ad colores primo accedendum...'
Scope & Content:
A treatise on rhetoric, entitled in the colophon 'tractatus de arte dictandi' (f. 48r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
16 folios.

1627. Harley MS 931, ff 1-72

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 931, ff 1-72
Title:
Extracts from the Psalms Latin and Greek
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 item

1628. Harley MS 931, ff 73-78

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 931, ff 73-78
Title:
Extracts from St Paul's Epistle to the Romans Latin and Greek
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
1 item

1629. Harley MS 941, f 26v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, f 26v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (six recipes). Title underlined in red 'For passey or þe failyng yvyl', incipit: 'Ys gode to drynk ys own / water ix daes et in quantity'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

1630. Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v
Title:
De origine gigantum
Scope & Content:
De origine gigantum, a Latin abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman Des Grantz Geanz, a short narrative telling the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leaves may have been taken from a different manuscript. For the text see Carley and Crick 1995.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

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