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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3969, ff 161r-164r
Title:: A short chronicle
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Temporibus roboan...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 7r-90r
Title:: Aelfric, Grammar.
Scope & Content:: The Grammar by Aelfric, abbot of Eynsham. Decoration: First initial and display script 'Eo Aelfricus ut minus sapiens' in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 87 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3735, ff 6r-12r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Kalendarium
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Kalendarium, with marginal annotations in one hand. Decoration: Large initial in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 6r). Initials within calendar in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1264-1293
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3843, ff 13r-25v
Title:: Computus ecclesiasticus
Scope & Content:: Computus ecclesiasticus, incipit: 'Cum superior[um] motus omnia a quo infinis gubernantur'. Includes several circular diagrams in ink (ff. 13v-15v, 17r, 17v, 19r, 20r, 21r, 22v, 23v, 24r-25v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3969, ff 168r-196r
Title:: Phisicon Protheron
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'A multis prudentibus viris...' Decoration: Large foliate initial 'A', at the beginning of the text. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 29 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3140, ff 39r-43v
Title:: Hippocrates, De regimine acutorum
Scope & Content:: The Latin translation of the De regimine acutorum or Regimen in Acute Diseases, a treatise on general medical precepts on pathology by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC). The translation, made from an Arabic version, is variously attributed to Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) and therefore t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3140, ff 274v-276v
Title:: Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses
Scope & Content:: Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses. The poetic summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Philaretus's treatise on pulses compiled to help university students in the memorisation of diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Ingenii vires modicis conatibus inpar', explicit: 'Iam sterilem cul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 3 folios + 2 flyleaves.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 44v-45r
Title:: De taxone liber
Scope & Content:: Rubric (f. 44v) 'De usu taxonis et aliarum / bestiarum', prologue incipit: 'De taxone quem Latini mele / dicunt Iapartus rex egiptiorum / Octavio suo salutem. Plurimis / exemplis experti sumus virtutes', explicit: 'quidam etiam / melen vocant', text incipit: 'Hunc apprehendens vivo dentes exime ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r
Title:: Treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the plague; incipit: 'Ad preservandum corpus a pestilensia .i.e. do coimed an cuirp a naimsir na plaga', explicit: 'Item balad mumia do gabail / a naimsir na plaga ocus is tarbach sin'. The Latin source of the present treatise has not been identified.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish
Date Range:: 1459
Extent:: 2 folios.

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