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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647
Title:: Astronomical miscellany
Scope & Content:: Collection of astronomical texts including: Tabula Gerlandi with a canon (ff. 2v-3v); Balduinus de Mardochio, Compotus manualis (ff. 4r-7v); Tables of Fnugo and Bede with canons (ff. 7v-10r); Petrus de Dacia, Kalendarium (ff. 10v-16v); Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (ff. 17r-22r); Joh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 225 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3734
Title:: Toledan tables
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: Table for calculating dates (f. 1v); Fragment of a document 1350 (f. 2r); Diagrams of constellations (f. 2v); Toledan tables (ff. 3r-38v); ‘De proiectionibus radiorum planetorum’ (f. 39r-39v); Toledan tables (ff. 40r-41v); Table for calculating dates (f. 42r). Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:: 42 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4241
Title:: Aristotle, Metaphysica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Metaphysica. Decoration: Initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-1464
Extent:: 88 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5764
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff 1r-25v: The Psalter of Jerome. ff. 25v-68v: The Psalter of Augustine. ff. 69r-77r: The Vigils of the Dead, entitled: 'Officium breve compositum ob venerantiam mortuorum'. ff. 77r-80v: The Hours of the Holy Trinity. ff. 80v-86v: The Vigils of St John the Baptist. ff. 87r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1450-c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1685
Title:: Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:: Gariopontus, Passionarius Galeni (ff. 1r-143v); Chronology of important events in British history from the Creation to the reign of Edward III (ff. 143v-144r). The manuscript also includes: added prayers (ff. 9v, 12v); Figurae Divisionis relating to complexions dominated by humours (f. 103r); ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1399
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2200
Title:: Blazons of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: A collection of blazons of the attributed arms of the Nine Worthies, the Three Kings of Cologne (i.e. the Three Magi), and ‘the Emperours’ (the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, and Prester John); followed by the blazons of the attributed and historic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2248
Title:: The Prose Brut
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: A table of contents for the Prose Brut. ff. 19r-290v: The Prose Brut; the Common Version to 1419. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 18v: A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido Zephirus fert exennia kymbus'; added in a 15th-century hand. Decoration: Guide letters in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2429
Title:: A German-Latvian dictionary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: A German-Latvian dictionary with example sentences, entitled: ‘Vocabularium Germanico-Curlandicum’ (f. 1r) or ‘Lellipses Wörter-Büchlein’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latvian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2874
Title:: Coniuratio malignorum spirituum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a previously unidentified copy of the Coniuratio malignorum spirituum, a book with instructions for exorcising demoniacs of which 30 editions were published in Rome and Italy between c. 1480 and c 1500. This appears to be the only extant English manuscript copy of the te...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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