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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353, ff 144v-146r
Title:: Notes on arithmetic
Scope & Content:: Notes on arithmetic, follwed by a drawing of the Virgin (f. 146r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353, ff 147r-147v
Title:: Pseudo-Ovidius, De vetula
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Ovidius, De vetula, excerpt (I, 672-714, and II, 834-841). Decoration: Initials in red. First letters highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353, ff 148r-159v
Title:: Odo of Tournai, Rhythmomachia
Scope & Content:: Odo of Tournai, Rhythmomachia with tables, divided into two parts (ff. 148r-157r, 157v-159v). Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353, ff 160r-177v
Title:: Chronicle relating to the year 1291
Scope & Content:: A chronicle relating to the year 1291 and possibly referring to the death of Jeanne of Chatillon, Countess of Blois and Chartres; incipit: 'En lan de grace mil cc quatre vins et onze le rendi devant la commision saint pol'. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 18 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3360
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques
Scope & Content:: Thomas Hobbes's unpublished tract on optics, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques, dedicated to William Cavendish, marquis of Newcastle. It contains a title page (f. 1r), the dedication to Cavendish (ff. 2r-4r), a list of contents (ff. 5r-5v), and Hobbes's tract on optics in two parts (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1646
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3394
Title:: Andres de Vega, Fabrica Horologa Universal
Scope & Content:: Contains the Fabrica Horologa Universal, a work on dialling, by Andres de Vega, a confessor of Observant Franciscans in the province of Granada, which he dedicated to Luis de Guzmán, advisor to the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans of the province of Granada. The work on the manuscript prob...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Spanish
Date Range:: 1627
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3414
Title:: Theophrastus, De historia plantarum.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Theophrastus, De historia plantarum translated by Theodore Gaza of Thessaloniki, with the preface dedicated to Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455) for whom Theodore translated the Greek text into Latin (ff. 2r-4v). Decoration: Large initials in red with red pen-flourishing. Large...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 216 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3475
Title:: Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia dedicated to Augustino Maffei (b. 1431, d. 1496), Apostolic scriptor and curial official, humanist collector of books and antiquities by the author Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Italian humanist (b. 1421,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1462-c 1466
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487
Title:: Aristotle, Libri naturales
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 4r-65v
Title:: Aristotle, Physica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle's Physica with marginal gloses in two or three columns. Decoration: 9 historiated initials in gold and colours at the beginning of books. f. 4r (book I: preface): initial Q(uoniam) of burning of books before a friar and a seated king. Below, a small miniature of a sleeping man and a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 61 folios.

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