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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 129r-138r
Title:: Expositiones nominum Bibliotece
Scope & Content:: 'Expositiones nominum Bibliotece', incipit (Prologue): 'Prologus vel prefacio ad pesonam pertinet'; incipit (text): 'Abissus .i. sine bisso'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 140v-173r
Title:: Aristotle, Meteora
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 170r-173r). Decoration: 3 historiated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of major text divisions: f. 140v: initial 'P'(ost) of a scholar pointing at the sky with falling rain and a head spewing fire from clouds. f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3734, f 2v
Title:: Diagrams of constellations
Scope & Content:: Contains two diagrams locating constellations on nights of 11-12 March 1362.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1362
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4977, ff 1r-72v
Title:: Practica Petrocelli Salernitani
Scope & Content:: Practica Petrocelli Salernitani or Tereoperica (from the title given in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11219, ff. 42r-103v) is an anonymous therapeutic manual in Latin that was put together from Latin sources (some of which can be traced to Greek originals) in late antiquity or...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 72 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4350, ff 4r-15r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, De sphera
Scope & Content:: Decoration: Historiated initial 'I'(ntentio) of an astronomer holding an astronomical instrument, at the beginning of the text (f. 4r). Diagram in yellow and black ink (f. 4r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3017, ff 2r-21r
Title:: Calendarium
Scope & Content:: Calendarium, entitled 'Computatio graecorum sive latinorum', incipit: 'Ianuarii Augusti et Decembris imponere habent...' A decennovenal (19-year) cycle on ff. 3v-8r is given for the years 817-873.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 20 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 140r-140v
Title:: De sole
Scope & Content:: A text entitled 'De sole', incipit: 'Annis arabum 691 perfectis.' It contains predictions of eclipses of the sun for the years 1293-1311 and of the moon for the years 1293-1300.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1010, ff 32r-32v
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (four recipes). The recipes relate to gout, stomach and eyes. Rubric: 'A goude medicine for þe goute', incipit: 'Take þe milk of a / cowe of on coloure and bene mele of ynde and seethe / hem'. Listed in Robins 1970.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

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