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681. Harley MS 531, ff 33r-47v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531, ff 33r-47v
Title:
Ars minutiarum attributed to Richard of Geddinge
Scope & Content:
Ars minutiarum attributed to Richard of Geddinge, incipit: ‘Cum minor quantitas aliquotiens sumpta.’ These two quires originally formed part of a different manuscript. The beginning of the following text on f. 47v was crossed out and the word 'explicit' was provided in the margin by Roger Marsc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
15 folios

682. Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2558, ff 191r-193v
Title:
Weather prediction from Christmas day and Lunary
Scope & Content:
Weather prediction from Christmas day (f. 191r); Incipit: 'Die dominica si nativitas /dei/ evenerit / hyems bona et ventosa, estas / sicca et vindemie bone'. Other copies of the text in Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii (ff. 36r-36v) and Cotton MS Cleopatra B. ix (ff. 23r-24r), Egerton MS 2852 (ff. 108v-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
3 folios.

683. Harley MS 3099, ff 154r-164v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3099, ff 154r-164v
Title:
Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
Isidore, Bishop of Seville, De natura rerum. The treatise is dedicated to Sisebut, King of the Visigots, and is divided into 48 chapters relating to hemerology (the division of time in days, weeks, months, and years), cosmography, astronomy, and meteorology. Prologue, incipit: 'Domino et filio s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1130
Extent:
11 folios.

684. Harley MS 3353, ff 69v-70v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353, ff 69v-70v
Title:
Doctrina Henrici libello de imagine mundi.
Scope & Content:
Doctrina Henrici libello de imagine mundi. A brief text on humours with the title 'Doctrina Henrici libello de ymagine mundi' added later; incipit: 'Quatuor elementa quatuor quantitatibus temporum convertun/tur. Terra sicca et frigida', explicit (f. 70v): 'semper semen siccum feniculi vel / apjj ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
2 folios.

685. Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v
Title:
Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali'
Scope & Content:
Veterinary tract in Italian (Sicilian dialect? with some Latin words and terms) entitled here (f. 40r) 'La medicina deli cavali'; Preface incipit (f. 41r): 'Dozarmu alluremi fia crucem + prima et + ingatur ecus passus'; with a table of contents (ff. 41v-43r); incipit (f. 43r): 'Allu nomi dideu i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
117 folios.

686. Harley MS 5425, ff 94r-140v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5425, ff 94r-140v
Title:
Haly, Commentarium in Claudii Galeni Tegni
Scope & Content:
The Latin version of a medical compendium written by the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (c. 130-200) with its commentary by Alī ibn Ridwān (d. 1061, 1068 or 1089), generally known as Commentum Haly. Galen's text follows the Latin version probably made in Southern Italy in the mid-12th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
46 folios.

687. Harley MS 1009, f 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1009, f 24
Title:
William Rede (?), Canon tabule sequentis de equacione planetarum
Scope & Content:
William Rede (?), Canon tabule sequentis de equacione planetarum, incipit: 'In primis de tempore equato...'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th-early 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

688. Harley MS 1811, ff 3r-33v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811, ff 3r-33v
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar
Scope & Content:
The astronomical calendar composed by Nicholas of Lynn (fl. 1386–1411), Carmelite friar and astronomer of Oxford. A note, by Thomas Allen, (1540?–1632), mathematician and antiquary of Gloucester Hall, Oxford (f. 31r), according to the Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808), reads: 'Hoc calenda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
After 1387-early 15th century
Extent:
31 folios.

689. Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2320, ff 52r-70v
Title:
Directions for braiding
Scope & Content:
Directions for braiding; listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 2947.00.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
19 folios.

690. Harley MS 13, ff 218v-228v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 13, ff 218v-228v
Title:
Messahala, Liber coniunctionis et receptionis in the Latin translation by John of Seville
Scope & Content:
Messahala, Liber coniunctionis et receptionis in the Latin translation by John of Seville. Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'I'(nvenit) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 218v). Includes 2 diagrams in colours (ff. 227v, 228v), 2 added marginal diagrams in ink (ff. 220v, 22...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1310
Extent:
11 folios.

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