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181. Harley MS 625, ff 175r-175v.

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625, ff 175r-175v.
Title:
Boethius, De institutione musica, extract.
Scope & Content:
An extract from Boethius, De institutione musica. Decoration: Initials and parapha in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century, before 1372
Extent:
1 folio; f. 176 is a modern paper flyleaf.

182. Harley MS 647

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647
Title:
Collection of astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville, with two short prayers (ff. 1r-2r); 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica (ff. 2v-17v); 3. Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History; Macrobius, Commentary on the So...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 820-11th century
Extent:

1 volume

183. Harley MS 647, f 21v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647, f 21v
Title:
Diagram of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Scope & Content:
Diagram of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

1 folio.

184. Harley MS 647, ff 1r-2r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647, ff 1r-2r
Title:
Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville with two short prayers
Scope & Content:
Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville with two short prayers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 820 and c. 1000
Extent:
2 folios.

185. Harley MS 647, ff 2v-17v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647, ff 2v-17v
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica
Scope & Content:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, illustrated with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 820-840
Extent:

15 folios.

186. Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r
Title:
Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, books 8 and 6 (known as The Seven-Book Computus), also in the margins of ff. 16r-16v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1000
Extent:

3 folios.

187. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

188. Harley MS 866, f 48v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, f 48v
Title:
A treatise on chiromancy [imperfect], incipit: 'Benedictus Deus omnipotens qui machinam mundanam...'
Scope & Content:
Includes the beginning of a treatise on chiromancy. The same text is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 607.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 folio.

189. Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:
Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:
A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
7 folios.

190. Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r
Title:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones.
Scope & Content:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title: 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
9 folios.