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831. Harley MS 4347, f 43v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347, f 43v
Title:
A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Incipit inventio sancte crucis .i. tri bliadhna deg air fhicheat ar...'. According to Flower (1926) this text was associated with the Irish Fierabras.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 folio.

832. Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r
Title:
Hippocrates, Aphorismata
Scope & Content:
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates in seven books in Latin and Irish. The Latin version is that of Nicholaus Leonicenus, the Italian physician and humanist (b. 1428, d. 1524), which was first printed in 1524. Each Latin aphorism is followed by an Irish translation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
37 folios.

833. Harley MS 4347, ff 37r-41r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347, ff 37r-41r
Title:
Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinae, in Latin and Irish (Books I, II.1,2), imperfect
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Febris est calor innaturalis mutatus in ignem'; ends imperfectly: 'ised is tuitim fhuilt ann flux min an fuilt gan chion lenda.' A scribal note follows: 'Ataim triamaoinech o'rér' (f. 41r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
5 folios.

834. Harley MS 4347, ff 42v-43r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347, ff 42v-43r
Title:
A collection of definitions and maxims, incipit: 'Doctrina est propositura rei demonstraciones partes explicans...'
Scope & Content:
The manuscript title of this collection reads: 'Axiomata quaedam philosophica' (added by a later hand).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
2 folios.

835. Harley MS 4347, ff 44r-44v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347, ff 44r-44v
Title:
Added notes, calculations and a diagram
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 folio.

836. Harley MS 4350

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4350
Title:
Astronomical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Various astronomical and calendrical texts including: Robert Grosseteste, De sphera (ff. 4r-15r); Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (ff. 15v-25v); 'Epistula super libello de natura scintillarum' (ff. 25v-29v); Jordanus de Nemore, De plana sphaera (Demonstratio de plana spera; Planispheri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
123 folios.

837. Harley MS 4350, ff 4r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4350, ff 4r-15r
Title:
Robert Grosseteste, De sphera
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Historiated initial 'I'(ntentio) of an astronomer holding an astronomical instrument, at the beginning of the text (f. 4r). Diagram in yellow and black ink (f. 4r). 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:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
12 folios.

838. Harley MS 4350, ff 15v-25v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4350, ff 15v-25v
Title:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Historiated initial 'O'(mnia) of a mathematician writing numbers at his desk, at the beginning of the text (f. 15v). 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:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
11 folios.

839. Harley MS 4350, ff 25v-29v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4350, ff 25v-29v
Title:
Epistula super libello de natura scintillarum
Scope & Content:
Incipit: 'Domino parisiensi stelle...'. Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
5 folios.

840. Harley MS 4350, ff 30r-36v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4350, ff 30r-36v
Title:
Jordanus de Nemore, De plana sphaera (Demonstratio de plana spera; Planispherium)
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Historiated initial 'S'(pera) of an astronomer holding an astrolabe (?), at the beginning of the text (f. 31r). Initial in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue (f. 30r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
7 folios.

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