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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7652
Title:: Liber messahallah (Latin translation from Arabic attributed to John of Seville); Liber Hermetis de 15 stellis, de 15 lapidibus, de 15 herbis, et de 15 figuris; Albumazar de floribus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains astrological works with excerpts attributed to the Arabian astrologer Albumazar [Abu-Maaschar], 'Dorothius' (perhaps referring to the Greek astrological poet Dorotheus of Sidon), the legendary Hermes Trismegistus, the Persian Jewish astrologer and astronomer Mashallah ib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7653
Title:: The Harley Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a decorated prayerbook with an Old English gloss. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 2965 (the Book of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to first quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7655
Title:: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-20r: Theological questions and answer by a Protestant author (referring to ‘The Papists wicked blasphemie’), beginning: ‘Q: How many commaundements are there in the first Table?’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7656
Title:: Mathematical and philosophical fragments
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is formed of five independent parts: ff. 1r-7r: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica, fragment. ff. 8r-13v: 'Liber philosophie monachorum' fragments of book 2. ff. 14r-17v: 'Liber philosophie monachorum' fragments of book 4. ff. 18r-19v: Unidentified biblical or theologica...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1499
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7656, f 20r
Title:: Unidentified text, incipit: 'Bucolica ut ferunt inde dicta sunt...'
Scope & Content:: The same text beginning 'Bucolica ut ferunt inde dicta sunt...' is found in Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvt., MS 7, f. 1r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7656, ff 1r-7r
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Includes the preface to Boethius De institutione arithmetica, followed by other excerpts, incipit: 'Numerus naturaliter extensus...' Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with blue pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7656, ff 8r-13v
Title:: 'Liber secundus philosophie monachorum' (fragment)
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a text with a late-14th-century running title reading 'Liber secundus philosophie monachorum', incipit: 'Cum interogaret aliquin abbas Arsenius...' Ff. 8r-13v and 14r-17v are probably parts of the same manuscript: the running titles in both sections were added by the same hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7656, ff 14r-17v
Title:: 'Liber quartus philosophie monachorum' (fragment)
Scope & Content:: A fragment of a text with a late-14th-century running title reading 'Liber quartus philosophie monachorum', incipit: '...sum tu vile habes balsaniam tuum...' Ff. 8r-13v and 14r-17v are probably parts of the same manuscript: the running titles in both sections were added by the same hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7658
Title:: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23r: John [Hans] Engelbrecht, ‘A true Relation of a Vision of Heaven and Hell; That is: How God hath awaked and raised mee John Engelbrecht from Death, and when my body was dead, stiff and cold (the which is known to many people in Brunswick) the same in a short time became aga...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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