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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1720
Title:: Georg Joachim Rheticus, Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum ad decades secundorum scrupulorum et ad partes 10 000 000 000.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Magnus canon doctrinae triangulorum of Georg Joachim Rheticus, b. 1514, d. 1574) (original name Georg Joachim De Porris, or Von Lauchen), Austrian astronomer and mathematician. An earlier, simplier version of the work was published in 1551 in Leipzig.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-1596
Extent:: 274 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986
Title:: Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:: Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The compilation is a copy of a late-antique and early medieval corpus of pharmacopeial texts. Contents includes: 1. Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 1*r-2*r, 1r); 2. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herba...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 84 folios.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353
Title:: Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941
Title:: A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978
Title:: Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:: A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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