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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v
Title:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford of 1302: inscribed 'Tempore fr[at]ris Joh[an]is de Weybur[n] abb[at]is Osen[sis] a festo s[anc]ti Egidii Anno domini m ccc ii' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1302-c 1320
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r
Title:: Statuta Angliae (Vetera Statuta)
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises the texts of Magna Carta and of the Charter of Forest as reissued by Henry III in 1225, followed by a number of Statutes of England; imperfect, incipit (f. 2r): 'Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie Dux Normannie et Aquitanie / Archiepiscopis … salutem. Sciatis qu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 27r-46r
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus, imperfect. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals and metals, and was probably composed in various stages between 1248 and 1262. According to Wyckoff (Albertus Magnus, B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 20 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80
Title:: Collection of texts on astronomy, optics, astrology and stones from a Merton College manuscript
Scope & Content:: This composite volume is formed by five parts (1-5), of which items 2-4 are identifiable as independent booklets or libelli. 1. ff. 1r-57r: the first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises texts by Roger Bacon, (De Scientia Perspectiva, ff. 1r-33v) and Richard of Wallingford, (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1200-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Texts on mathematics and geometry
Scope & Content:: The first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises: Roger Bacon, De Scientia Perspectiva (ff. 1r-33v); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis (ff. 34r-54r) and Tractatus rectanguli (ff. 54v-57r). Decoration: Chapter initials (3 lines; ff. 1r-8v and 34r-57r) in blue, with p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1499
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r, ff 1r-33r
Title:: Roger Bacon, De Scientia Perspectiva
Scope & Content:: De Scientia Perspectiva, treatise on optical science and phenomena by Roger Bacon (circa 1214-1292), philosopher and Franciscan friar. It is copied in cursive script (Anglicana) by two English hands, datable respectively to the second half of the 14th century (ff. 1r-8v, and 15th century (ff. 9r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1499
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r, ff 34r-54r
Title:: Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis
Scope & Content:: Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis. This treatise by Richard of Wallingford (c. 1292-1336), abbot of St Albans and astronomer, relates to an equatorium, an astronomical instrument for the calculation of planetary positions. It was probably composed around 1326, at much the same period ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 21 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r, ff 54v-57r
Title:: Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli
Scope & Content:: Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus rectanguli. Prologue 'Rectangulum in remedium tediosi & difficilis operis', rubric 'Capitulum primum de arte componendi tibiam primam', incipit: 'Ad componendum igitur rectangulum, separemus laminam', explicit (f. 57r) 'ponimus istic finem', followed (f. 57r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 58r-74v
Title:: Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), Texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: The second unit relates to and contains two texts by Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), De interrogationibus or Liber introductorius ad astrologiam (ff. 58r-68r), and De Electionibus (ff. 68v-74r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 58r-74v, ff 58r-68r
Title:: Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), De interrogationibus or Liber introductorius ad astrologiam
Scope & Content:: Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), De interrogationibus or Liber introductorius ad astrologiam. Rubric 'Capitulum primum / principium consi/deracionis in rebus / quod est ascendens', incipit: 'Cum interrogatus fueris de aliqua interrogatione', explicit: 'destinetur omne quodam pertinet ad eand...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 11 folios

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