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741. Harley MS 3809

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3809
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicinae, Book 4, Fen I
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the eleventh volume of the 11-volume set containing the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458) on the medical summa by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cremona) (c. 1113/4-1187). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:

284 folios.

742. Harley MS 3812

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3812
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
A portable physician's folding almanac with calendrical information. The manuscript includes: 1. Calendar canon (f. 1r); 2. Calendar (three months to a leaf, one month per half-leaf, the first displayed on versos, the following two on rectos) with lunar conjunctions of the 19-year Metonic cyc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463
Extent:

5 folded folios.

743. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 3v-10r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 3v-10r
Title:
Computistical treatise
Scope & Content:
A computistical treatise, incipit: 'Ad inveniendam quantitatem annii solaris...'. Decoration: Initial in red ink (f. 3v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
8 folios + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the end.

744. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 11r-22v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 11r-22v
Title:
Johannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'O'(mnia) in red and blue at the beginning of the text. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
12 folios.

745. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 23r-43r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 23r-43r
Title:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'T'(ractatus) in blue and red. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. 1 circular diagram of the planetary spheres around the Earth (f. 23v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
21 folios.

746. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 43v-80r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 43v-80r
Title:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus
Scope & Content:
With 4 tables with commentaries (ff. 76v, 77v, 78v, 79v) and 1 table added by a different 13th-century hand (f. 80v). Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'C'(omputus) in blue and red. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
38 folios.

747. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 81r-86v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 81r-86v
Title:
Calendar
Scope & Content:
The calendar is of French use, outside Paris: (the inclusion of 'Sancti Albani episcopi' on. f. 82r (March) is a misspelling for 'Albini' - Aubin, bishop of Angers); and includes astronomical/astrological information.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
6 folios + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the end.

748. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v
Title:
Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Scope & Content:
Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
15 folios.

749. Harley MS 3814 A, ff 105r-139r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 105r-139r
Title:
A tract on divination
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'An ille promovebit anni praesenti vel non...'; with a circular diagram (f. 121r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
35 folios.

750. Harley MS 3843

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3843
Title:
Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: 1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v); 2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r); 3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

129 folios.

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