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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 224r-235v
Title:: Nicholas of Damascus, De plantis
Scope & Content:: Nicholas of Damascus, De plantis. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'T'(ria) in colours and gold of a man tilling the soil and another chopping down a tree, at the beginning of the text.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201, f 80v (item 1)
Title:: A note in Latin
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Ut iurans possit licite optinere dilacionem vel absolucionem....'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201, ff 74r-80v
Title:: Dubia sacre scripture secundum magistrum Pencrith
Scope & Content:: Decoration: Capitals highlighted in red; cadels, some decorated with human faces.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3140, ff 21r-29r
Title:: Hippocrates, Aphorismi, with Pseudo-Oribasius, Prologue to the Commentary
Scope & Content:: Hippocrates, Aphorismi, with Pseudo-Oribasius, Prologue to the Commentary. The Latin translation of the aphorisms by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC), followed by a prologue to the commentary traditionally attributed to Oribasius, the 4th-century Greek physician to the Emperor Julian the Apostate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 42r-73v
Title:: Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi
Scope & Content:: Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi, book 2, Megacosmos, in prose and verse. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in black and red ink, at the beginning of the text (f. 42r). Smaller initials in red, some with guide letters; paraphs in red; and first letters of verses highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-1440
Extent:: 32 folios; preceded by 1 unfoliated blank folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, f 38r
Title:: Two letters
Scope & Content:: Two letters: 1. Incipit: 'Abbas Westmonasteriensis salutem', explicit: 'tempora longiora'; 2. Incipit: 'Viro venerabili et discreto R.', explicit: 'vobis duxerit intimandum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3022, ff 32v-54v
Title:: Aristotle, De natura animalium.
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De natura animalium. Decoration: Historiated initial 'A'(d) of Aristotle, with a foliate border, at the beginning of the text (f. 32v). 1 smaller decorated foliate initial (f. 35r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 22 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:: Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:: Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3017, ff 42v-51r
Title:: Collection of computistical formulas.
Scope & Content:: A collection of computistical formulas. The formulas on ff. 42v-50r given for the years 861-864 were altered by a second hand for the years 864 and 899.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

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