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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 2r-26r
Title:: Statuta Angliae (Vetera Statuta)
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises the texts of Magna Carta and of the Charter of Forest as reissued by Henry III in 1225, followed by a number of Statutes of England; imperfect, incipit (f. 2r): 'Henricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie Dux Normannie et Aquitanie / Archiepiscopis … salutem. Sciatis qu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 79, ff 27r-46r
Title:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus
Scope & Content:: Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus, imperfect. This treatise by Albertus Magnus (1206-1280), scientist, philosopher, and theologian, relates to the nature of minerals and metals, and was probably composed in various stages between 1248 and 1262. According to Wyckoff (Albertus Magnus, B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 20 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80
Title:: Collection of texts on astronomy, optics, astrology and stones from a Merton College manuscript
Scope & Content:: This composite volume is formed by five parts (1-5), of which items 2-4 are identifiable as independent booklets or libelli. 1. ff. 1r-57r: the first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises texts by Roger Bacon, (De Scientia Perspectiva, ff. 1r-33v) and Richard of Wallingford, (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1200-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Texts on mathematics and geometry
Scope & Content:: The first unit relates to mathematics and geometry and comprises: Roger Bacon, De Scientia Perspectiva (ff. 1r-33v); Richard of Wallingford, Tractatus Albionis (ff. 34r-54r) and Tractatus rectanguli (ff. 54v-57r). Decoration: Chapter initials (3 lines; ff. 1r-8v and 34r-57r) in blue, with p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1350-1499
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 58r-74v
Title:: Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), Texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: The second unit relates to and contains two texts by Zael (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra'ili), De interrogationibus or Liber introductorius ad astrologiam (ff. 58r-68r), and De Electionibus (ff. 68v-74r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 75r-84v
Title:: Texts on astronomy and the making of talismans
Scope & Content:: The third unit of the manuscript relating to astronomy and to the making of talismans includes: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra) De imaginibus (ff. 75r-76r); De imaginibus super facies signorum, attributed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) (ff. 76r-77v); Hermes, Trismegistus (or Belenus), L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 85r-98r
Title:: Texts on astronomy
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit of the manuscript relates to astronomy and contains: Jean de Lignières [Jean de Picard], Canones (ff. 85r-93r); Jacob ben Machir ibn-Tibbon (Profatius Judaeus), Novus quadrans seu Practica novi Quadrantis (ff. 94r-97r); Notes relating to astronomy and the quadrant (ff. 98r-98...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1375-1424
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 80, ff 99r-106r
Title:: Texts on alchemy, theology, birds and trees, and the making of talismans
Scope & Content:: The fifth unit of the manuscript relates to alchemy and consists of treatises relating to alchemy, theology, birds and trees, and the making of talismans: Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de Gemmis (ff. 99r-101v); 'Figurae divisionis' (f. 102v); Anonymous treatise on precious stones (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 1r-1v, 56r-56v
Title:: Fragment of a gradual
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 110, ff. 1 and 56 contain fragments of a gradual with musical notation made in the mid-eleventh century, possibly at the Old Minster, Winchester (Bell, Music (2001), p. 59). The gradual appears to have been trimmed from its original dimensions to form endleaves for Harley MS 110, ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: mid-11th century
Extent:: 2 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper, Pseudo-Prosper, or Paulinus, Poema coniugis ad uxorem [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no.531]; Isidore, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a group of patristic texts which have been glossed in both Latin and Old English. Most of the glosses seem to be contemporary, with a few eleventh-century glosses (Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 304). The style of the initials suggest that the manuscript was written at Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 10th century
Extent:: 53 parchment folios, part of a parchment codex

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