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71. Harley MS 2660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2660
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text. Isidore of Seville's De natura rerum (ff. 33r-48v), a short treatise on physics, astronomy and geography, composed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1136
Extent:
175 folios.

72. Harley MS 3035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3035
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text (ff. 1r-47r, 63v-264r). The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between St. Isidore and Braulio Bishop o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1495
Extent:
265 folios.

73. Harley MS 3892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3892
Title:
Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1454
Extent:
58 folios.

74. Harley MS 6046

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6046
Title:
Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes commentaries on Aristotle's Physica, De anima, Parva naturalia, a commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Aristotle's De coelo, De ortu et interitu, and Tractatus meteorologicus. The first three commentaries on Aristotle are preceded by printed docume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1605-1606
Extent:

1 volume

75. Harley MS 625

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 625
Title:
A collection of astronomical and mathematical treatises and tables.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Two sets of tables of contents (ff. 1* and 1*v); 2. Notes (ff. 1*v-1r); 3. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sufi, Tables from Book of the constellations of the fixed stars (ff. 1v-6v); 4. Hyginus, Astronomica (extract) (f. 7v); 5. Geber (Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Muhammad al-Ishbili)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1350-1569
Extent:
176 folios.

76. Harley MS 2378

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2378
Title:
Miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of medical, culinary and alchemical texts and recipes. It was probably assembled by Nicholas Spalding, its 15th-century owner (his ex-libris on f. 135v and his name on ff. 5r and 61v). The two larger collections of medical recipes in the book (ff. 17r-61v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1360-1722
Extent:
1 volume

77. Harley MS 3022

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3022
Title:
Collection of texts on theology, instruction and natural history
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum (ff. 1r-32r); 2. Aristotle, De natura animalium (ff. 32v-54v); 3. The Life of St Veridianus (ff. 55r-57v); 4. Cassiodorus, Varia (ff. 57v-67v); 5. Cassiodorus, De anima (ff. 68r-79v); 6. Augustine, Speculu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

139 folios.

78. Harley MS 6485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6485
Title:
The Rosie Crucian Secrets, attributed to John Dee
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the alchemical treatise The Rosie Crucian Secrets, divided into three parts and attributed here to John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician and astrologer: each quire of 4 folios contains an inscription 'the first [second, etc] sheet Dr Dee.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1713
Extent:
1 volume

79. Harley MS 1121

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1121
Title:
Miscellaneous compilation including Livre de Sydrac and Robert Grosseteste, Château d’amour
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is composed of two contemporary semi-independent parts (ff. 1-140 and 141-168) and includes: 1. Table of contents and inscriptions (ff. 1*r-2v*); 2. Livre de Sydrac (ff. 1r-140r); 3. Edmund of Abingdon, Mirour de seinte eglyse (French translation of Speculumreligiosorum) (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume

80. Harley MS 1811

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1811
Title:
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar with canons, and other astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Leaves from an antiphonary or breviary used as flyleaves (ff. 1r-2v); 2. Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar (ff. 3r-33v); 3. Nicholas of Lynn, abbreviated calendar canons, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...' (ff. 34r-36v); 4. Prognostication text (ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
After 1387-15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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