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41. Harley MS 2506

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2506
Title:
Collection of astronomical and astrological treatises
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Hyginus, De astronomia (ff. 1r-30r); 2. Priscian, De duodecim signis (ff. 30r-30v); 3. Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum (ff. 30v-32r); 4. De nominibus stellarum (ff. 33r-35r); 5. Marcus Tullius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 990-c 1000
Extent:
93 folios.

42. Harley MS 3199

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3199
Title:
Collection of computistical and musical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two independent parts (ff. 2r-94v and 95r-126v). The first part is a miscellany of treatises relating to computus and music, including: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus (ff. 2r-55v); Guido of Arezzo, De Constitutionibus in Musica (ff. 55v-56r); Guido of Arezzo, Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

43. Harley MS 1706

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1706
Title:
Miscellany in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a renowned collection of verse and prose devotional literature in Middle English including works by John Lydgate, Richard Rolle and Henry Suso. It is divided in two parts (ff. 3r-95v and 96r-216v). The flyleaves that precede and append the litterary texts include a number of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1524
Extent:
216 folios.

44. Harley MS 647

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 647
Title:
Collection of astronomical and astrological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. Astronomical texts based on Isidore of Seville, with two short prayers (ff. 1r-2r); 2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica (ff. 2v-17v); 3. Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History; Macrobius, Commentary on the So...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 820-11th century
Extent:

1 volume

45. Harley MS 3394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3394
Title:
Andres de Vega, Fabrica Horologa Universal
Scope & Content:
Contains the Fabrica Horologa Universal, a work on dialling, by Andres de Vega, a confessor of Observant Franciscans in the province of Granada, which he dedicated to Luis de Guzmán, advisor to the Minister Provincial of the Franciscans of the province of Granada. The work on the manuscript prob...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 3717

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3717
Title:
Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes De naturis rerum by Thomas of Cantimpré, in the first shorter version of 19 books, written between 1228 and 1244. The core of the book (ff. 36r-130v) of c. 1230-1240, and the added section at the beginning (ff. 2r-33v) of c. 1250 date from the author's lifetime. The manus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1230-c 1450
Extent:
159 folios.

47. Harley MS 1009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1009
Title:
William Rede (?), Astronomical tables with canons
Scope & Content:
Tha manuscript includes a series of astronomical tables with canons: William Rede, Canon tabularum (ff. 3r-8r) with his adaptation of the Alphonsine Tables, (ff. 8v-11r); 'Canon tabularum sequencium de equacionibus 12 domorum' (ff. 11v-14v); Table of 'elevationes signorum in circulo directo'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-17th century
Extent:
30 folios.

48. Harley MS 2579

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2579
Title:
Miscellany including Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a humanistic miscellany including: Pseudo-Ovidius, Liber facetus (ff. 1r-12r); Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 13r-66r); M. Porcius Cato, De re rustica or De agri cultura (ff. 67r-115r). Decoration: Large initials in colours and gold with foliate decoration (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
116 folios.

49. Harley MS 2677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2677
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold of Pliny writing in his study, and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, combined with a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1457-1458
Extent:
509 folios.

50. Harley MS 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1
Title:
Treatises on astronomy, astrology, mathematics and geometry
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: Table of contents, f. 1v; Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum (ff. 2r-15v); Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (ff. 16r-17r); Thebit ben Corat, De figura sectore (ff. 17r-18v); Thebit ben Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250 - c 1324
Extent:

1 volume

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