Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2268
Title:: Collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a composite and miscellaneous volume possibly put together for Thomas Spofford, abbot of St Mary's abbey at York (el. 1405) and bishop of Hereford (el. 1421), who retired at St Mary's Abbey in 1448 and died there in 1456 (see O'Mara, Four Middle English Sermons (2002), pp. 19-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: An astronomical compendium with horoscopes and texts relating to the practice of medicine. The manuscript includes: 1. Astrological compendium attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon' (ff. 1r-8r); 2. Astrological diagrams and notes (ff. 8v-10r); 3. Two astrological notes about the moon and the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, f 10v
Title:: Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac
Scope & Content:: Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac with headings 'To kuow the kylyng of the mons' and 'For the zodiack'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r
Title:: Astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon'
Scope & Content:: An astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon', incipit: 'Notandum est that in eu..y(?) ingenient there ben 4 things to be sowght'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 8v-10r
Title:: Astrological diagrams and notes
Scope & Content:: Astrological diagrams and notes including diagrams of planetary spheres and tables of latitudes and the elevation of the sun.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 11r-29v
Title:: Astrological compendium
Scope & Content:: Astrological compendium, continuation of ff. 1r-8r. Includes rubrics as follows: 'Racio et climatum' (ff. 11r-11v); 'Off the nature and magnitude of cy [7] planets with the ordor of thebyns' (ff. 12r-12v); 'Off the debysion off the zodiack...' (ff. 13r); 'Off the disposicion of the xii signes' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 35r-50v
Title:: Astronomical tables with additional calendrical material
Scope & Content:: A text on reading astronomical tables, incipit: 'In as moche as it is dilectable be cuse of fortune...' (ff. 35r-35v) Astronomical tables (ff. 36v-48r) with additional calendrical material (ff. 49v-50v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 51r-61v
Title:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse'
Scope & Content:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse', incipit: 'Of the vicis of the mone and of hus ewyl'. Includes diagrams of astrological charts (ff. 58v-59v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

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