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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 63r-81r
Title:: Messahala (Masha ’Allah Ibn Athari), Astrolabium
Scope & Content:: Messahala (Masha ’Allah Ibn Athari), Astrolabium,in the Latin translation by John of Seville. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'S'(cito) in colours and gold of a scholar teaching about celestial bodies, at the beginning of the text. 2 foliate initials in colours and gold (ff. 75v, 80r). Seve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3735, f 5v
Title:: Treatise on calendar
Scope & Content:: A treatise on the calendar with additions in at least two different hands.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1264-1293
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:: 101 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 173r-174r
Title:: Medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medical recipes (c. 40 recipes). Imperfect. Incipit: 'Wehose hauet heuedache oþer torment in hys heued me/diane per fore. Make hym ley3e of verveyne aut of be/toyne oþer of filles oþer of wermod and þere with wasch'. Followed (f. 174v) by a recipe in Latin, incipit: 'Pro apostema'. Listed in L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3735, ff 74r-82v
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, De sphaera
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, De sphaera. Decoration: Diagrams (ff. 74r, 78v, 79v-80v, 81v-82r). Large initial in gold and colours, at the beginning of the text (f. 74r). Smaller initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue. Cleric faintly drawn within the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1264-1293
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2510, ff 136r-167v
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica.
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica. Decoration: Large zoomorphic initial 'I'(n) dandis of a bird in red ink on green background, at the beginning of the text. Initials in red or green. Tables and diagrams in red and green ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 31 folios.

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