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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915, ff 146v-147r
Title:: Recipe for making glaze
Scope & Content:: A recipe for making glaze, incipit 'Ad vitrum laterum faciendum.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 113r-198r
Title:: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés and Purgatoire de S. Patrice
Scope & Content:: The fourth unit of the manuscript includes: William of Waddington, Manuel des péchés (ff. 113r-190v); Purgatoire de S. Patrice (ff. 191v-197v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 85 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1585, ff 13v-58r
Title:: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber and Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium or De medicaminibus herbarum
Scope & Content:: Two herbals written continuously as one text: 1. ff. 13v-16v: Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber. The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Prologue incipit: 'Antoni musus mecennati Agrip/pe salutem. Cesari augusto / praestantissimo omnium mor/talium se et iudicibus ipsius....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 45 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, f 166r
Title:: Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development
Scope & Content:: Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development. Title (added later) 'De conceptione et formatione embryi', incipit: 'Omnibus horis quibus connubit homo omni muliere'. Another copy in Harley MS 3383 (f. 77r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3353, ff 54v-57v
Title:: Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, in hexameter verse.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, f 132r
Title:: Astronomical text on stars, 'Nota de investigatione gradus astris secundum Ptholemeum'
Scope & Content:: Astronomical text on stars, incipit: 'Nota de investigatione gradus astris secundum Ptholemeum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1685, ff 143v-144r
Title:: Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III
Scope & Content:: Chronology of important events in British history from Creation to the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377), incipit: 'Ab origine Mundi usque ad incarnationem Christi mmmmm.c.xl', explicit: 'Anno aetatis Edwardi primogeniti illustri regis nostri xxiii', circa 1353-54.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1354-1399
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 51r-52r
Title:: Macrobius, Extract from the Commentary on the somnium Scipionis (I, 20, 14-32)
Scope & Content:: An extract from Macrobius, Commentary on the somnium Scipionis (I, 20, 14-32).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 54v-55r
Title:: Macrobius, Extract from the Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis (II, 11,5-17)
Scope & Content:: An extract from Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis (II, 11,5-17).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 86r-112v, ff 86r-102v
Title:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Turpin, Chronicle (Chronique de Charlemagne), incipit: 'Cj comence le stoire qui / Turpin le ercevesque / de reins'. For the text see Walpole 1976; listed with other four copies in Shepherd 1996. Decoration: Initials in red or blue. 2 drawings of hybrids in brown ink (ff. 95v, 102v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 17 folios.

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