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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6312, ff 1-59v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Herodotus, Historiae Book I, with a few Latin marginal notes. Imperfect, expl. (1.98) ἐκ πάντων Μήδων καταλέξασθαι πρὸς.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: before 1449
Extent:: 59 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 123v-124v
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De quantitatibus stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De quantitatibus stellarum et planetarum et proportione terre (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'P'(tholomeus) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 123v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 57, ff 26r-27v
Title:: Excerpt from the Distinctiones de vita eterna
Scope & Content:: The manuscript also includes a fragment from the 'Distinctiones de vita eterna', a collection of concordances of biblical sentences, imperfect; incipit: 'In euangelio super illum locum faciamus hic tria tabernacula' (Math. 17: 4), explicit: 'Dixit custos. Venit mane et nox. Si queritis' (Isaiah ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 9r-9v
Title:: Thomas Fayreford, List of medical cases
Scope & Content:: List of Thomas Fayreford's medical cases with names of patients including over 100 named people cured by Fayreford. Title 'De curis factis per T. Ffayreforde in diversis locis', incipit: 'In primis in domina de Ponynges que habuit frenesim', explicit: 'item Johannes peterton'. Published in Jones...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 121r-121v
Title:: Prayers of a mass for a priest.
Scope & Content:: Two prayers of a mass for a priest ('secreta' and 'ad completorium').
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 125v-128v
Title:: Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento.
Scope & Content:: Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento, excerpts: incipit 'Ic wolde secgan be þam ungesaeligum folce...' (ll. 1227-61), and 'Hieronimus se wurðfulla...' (ll. 1017-1153). Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

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.

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5228, ff 102r-118v
Title:: Medical texts including recipes and texts relating to urine and uroscopy
Scope & Content:: The sixth unit includes: Short treatises relating to medicine including medical recipes (ff. 102r-109r, 109v-110r). Incipit (f. 102r): 'Contemplatio est rationis investigatio', incipit (f. 109r): 'Quoniam nulli vestrum opinor dubium esse homine ceteris animalibus digniorem'. Present copies are l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1488
Title:: Minutes of the Commissioners of the Public Accounts, 5 March 1690-4 September 1691
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume containing the minutes of the Commissioners of the Public Accounts from 5 March 1690 to 4 September 1691. At this time the members of this commission included Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Baronet, Sir Thomas Clarges, Sir Peter Colleton, Paul Foley Esq, Colonel Robert Austen, Sir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1691
Extent:: 1 volume

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