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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 625, ff 164v-173r
Title:: Al-Zarkali (Ibrahim bin Yahya an-Naqqash az-Zarqali al-Qurtubi, Abu Ishaq), Opus astrolabii (Saphea), in the Latin translation by William the Englishman.
Scope & Content:: Al-Zarkali (Ibrahim bin Yahya an-Naqqash az-Zarqali al-Qurtubi, Abu Ishaq), Opus astrolabii (Saphea), in the Latin translation by William the Englishman. Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with purple pen-flourishing. paraps in red or blue. 1 large unfinished circ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:: 9 folios.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 141r-156r
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum)
Scope & Content:: Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculum religiosorum). Decoration: Historiated initial of saint Edmund of Abingdon as a bishop holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog pursuing a hare, at the beginning of the text (f. 141)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 143v-144v
Title:: A text on the preservation of health
Scope & Content:: A text on the preservation of health, incipit: 'Si quis corpus sanum custodere desiderat...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios; followed by a blank page.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5578, ff 2-33
Title:: (1).Plutarch, Politica Praecepta. Plutarchi Moralia, ed. W. R. Paton et al., Leipzig 1925-, V.i, p.58, No.52 (Planudean corpus No.58). inc. Εἰ πρὸς ἄλλο τι χρήσασθαι.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour, Robert Grosseteste, Rules, and other text including charms.
Scope & Content:: The second unit of the manuscript includes: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love) (ff. 70r-81r); Robert Grosseteste, Rules (ff. 81r-85r); Rules of Friendship or La Diffinission de Amurs (ff. 85r-85v); Charm against wounds (f. 85v) and Charm for bloodletting (f. 85v). Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5664, ff 71-128v
Title:: (8). Aristophanes, Plutus. ff. 73-75 are misbound: ff. 73-74 contain lines 235-270 and f. 75 lines 123-140. Preceded by (f. 71) a Life of Aristophanes and (ff. 71v-72) a prose argument of the Plutus. Marginal and interlinear scholia.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1490-1519
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6295, ff 1-20
Title:: (1). Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata (lib. I-II). Ideler i pp.3-80. Here marked Βιβλίον αʹ. inc. Τῶν προβλημάτων τὰ μὲν ἐστὶ πιστὰ καὶ γνώριμα. expl. ἐνδιδόναι τῆς οἰκείας ὁρμῆς καὶ φορᾶς.
Scope & Content:: Problemata (lib. I-II). Ideler i pp.3-80
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6307, ff 55v-56v
Title:: Prose argument to Nubes attributed in Arundel 530 to Thomas Magister. inc. Ἄνυτος καὶ Μέλιτος Σωκράτει. Followed by scholia on the beginning of Nubes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

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