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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 1r-1v
Title:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to Osney Abbey at Oxford of 1302: inscribed 'Tempore fr[at]ris Joh[an]is de Weybur[n] abb[at]is Osen[sis] a festo s[anc]ti Egidii Anno domini m ccc ii' (f. 1v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1302-c 1320
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v
Title:: Marie de France, Fables
Scope & Content:: Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r
Title:: Marie de France, Lais
Scope & Content:: Marie de France, Lais; incipit: 'Ki deus ad dune en science?', explicit: 'Chahum nel deust oblier'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 43 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 121r-135v
Title:: Nicholas Spalding, Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Collection of medical recipes compiled by Nicholas Spalding; the continuation of this text is included in ff. 137r-154v (circa 167 recipes, two less than the 169 quoted in the table of contents); Imperfect. The collection was popular and can be found in many manuscripts: see Robbins 1970; Hargrea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3091, ff 4v-6r
Title:: Astronomical tables with added notated proses
Scope & Content:: Astronomical tables (2nd half of the 9th century) with added notated proses 'Psallat unus' and 'Gloriosa dies adest' (f. 5r) and notated antiphons and responsories for the Office of St Denis (f. 5v-6r). Musical notation: neumes, northern France, 10th century (ff. 5v-6r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3969, ff 97r-105v
Title:: De phisiognomia (imperfect: missing text at the beginning)
Scope & Content:: Incipit: '...pigri temulenti. processu a temporis et hoc genere phisiognomiam...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5725, ff 140-140v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Moschopulean life of Euripides, inc. Εὐριπίδης ὁ ποιητὴς τὸ μὲν γένος ἦν Ἀθηναῖος.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5744, ff 25-26
Title:
Scope & Content:: Prose argument to Sophocles' Ajax. Inc. Τὸ δρᾶμα τῆς Τρωϊκῆς ἐστὶ πραγματείας.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 117r-131r
Title:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat
Scope & Content:: De expositione nominum astronomie, attributed to Thebit ben Corat in the table of contents, incipit: 'Diem? omni in horarum...' F. 119r is a palimpsest. The text was written over an erased diagram. A part of a similar unfinished diagram is on f. 131v. Decoration: Initials in blue. 12 diagram...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 15 folios, followed by two unfoliated leaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 36r-48v
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena)
Scope & Content:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena). Decoration: 21 images of constellation figures painted by an Anglo-Saxon artist of the Ramsey Psalter (Harley MS 2904) working on the continent (ff. 36r-44v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 12 folios.

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