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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, ff 51r-61v
Title:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse'
Scope & Content:: 'De viciis lune et eius male esse', incipit: 'Of the vicis of the mone and of hus ewyl'. Includes diagrams of astrological charts (ff. 58v-59v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 1*r-2*v, 1r
Title:: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber
Scope & Content:: The text belong to the α branch of the tradition, with interpolations. Rubric mostly effaced (f. 1*r): '….. / Antonius Marcu* Agrippae salutem / Caesari Augusto praestantissimo', prologue incipit: '[O]mnium mortalium sed et iudicibus ipsius / Scitote proximum esse auxilium', explicit: 'redactam ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, f 30v
Title:: A table for converting Christian years into Arabic years
Scope & Content:: A table for converting Christian years into Arabic years with an explanatory text, incipit: 'Ut annos arabum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269, f 10v
Title:: Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac
Scope & Content:: Two astrological notes about the moon and the Zodiac with headings 'To kuow the kylyng of the mons' and 'For the zodiack'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3647, ff 95v-97r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De quantitate stellarum
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat (Thabit bin Qurra), De quantitate stellarum Decoration: 1 illuminated foliate initial 'P'(tholemeus) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 95v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4986, ff 45r-50r
Title:: (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions
Scope & Content:: The text belongs to the α branch of the tradition. Rubric added by a later hand (f. 45r) 'De cervo', incipit: 'Ad omnes homines. Cervinum cornu habet vim omnes humo/res siccandi ', explicit (f. 49v) '['De elefante' rubric added by a later hand (f. 49v)]: … faciem suam fricaverit plagas mundabit'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6258 B, ff 44v-51r
Title:: Medicina de quadrupedibus with added medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Medicina de quadrupedibus. The text consists of the Old English translations of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. 1. ff. 44v-45v: De taxone liber (c. 8 recipes). Prologue 'Þe Egypta king ['rexe / king/ rex' added in the margin] þe idpartus wæs hatan / Octaviano þ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6878, ff 3r-62r
Title:: Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde
Scope & Content:: Petit abrégé de la sphère du Monde, a French translation of Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera mundi, incipit: 'La sphere est un corps solide...' Decoration: Numerous images in ink showing divisions of the sphere, diagrams of celestial spheres, position of the Earth, eclipses of the sun and moon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 60 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 120r-142v
Title:: De ungentis
Scope & Content:: De ungentis: a collection of medical and alchemical recipes, incipit: 'Ungentum Ioh[annis?] yspani preciosumque...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 23 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 199r-203r
Title:: Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour
Scope & Content:: The fifth unit of the manuscript includes Nicholas Bozon, La Pleinte d'Amour; Rubric 'Ici comence la pleynte de / amour', incipit: 'Amur Amur ou estes veus'. For the text see M. Vising, La Plainte d'Amour, poèm anglo-normand (Göteborg, 1905, 1907). Decoration: 1 initial (f. 199r; 2 lines) in b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

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