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81. Harley MS 3737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3737
Title:
Alexander Neckam, De naturis rerum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Alexander Neckham, De naturis rerum, with added glosses including a passage from P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses and Claudianus De phenicae (f. 31r). Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red, with pen-flourishing and penwork decoration including foliate motifs (f. 2r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1180-c 1200
Extent:

Parchment codex

82. Harley MS 1683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1683
Title:
Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis], Collection of lectures on Galen, Hippocrates and Jacobus Sylvius
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of lectures on medical authors by the French physician Barthelemy Pardoux [Bartholomaeus Perdulcis] (b. 1545, d. 1611) : Table of contents (f. 1v); Lecture on Hippocrates, De natura hominis (ff. 2r-18v); Lecture on Jacobus Sylvius, Anatomen (ff. 19r-40v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

83. Harley MS 4235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4235
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. The manuscript includes: a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 4236

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4236
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in several manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. Another copy manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

85. Harley MS 3487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3487
Title:
Aristotle, Libri naturales
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

86. Harley MS 6858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6858
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. This manuscript includes a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1699
Extent:
1 volume

87. Harley MS 208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 208
Title:
Letters of Alcuin and Dungal
Scope & Content:
Contents: Alcuin, Epistolae (91 letters) (ff. 1r-112r); Two added letters, incipit: 'Eximiae indolis honore fulgido...'; and 'Praeconio eximiae sanctitatis recolendo Domino R episcoporum sanctissimo divina miseratione Wilelmus devotus episcopus' (f. 112r); Dungalus, Epistolae (5 letters) (ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

88. Harley MS 3092

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3092
Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis and De computo
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two works by Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis (ff. 2r-28r) and De computo (ff. 29r-39v), with an added table of contents (f. 1r). Decoration: Chapters, books and paragraphs start with bigger initials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
39 folios.

89. Harley MS 3704

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3704
Title:
Collection of excerpts from Aristotle and from commentaries on Aristotle's works
Scope & Content:
Collection of excerpts from Aristotle and from commentaries on Aristotle's works, divided into two parts (ff. 1r-34v and 35r-83v). Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1339-c 1340
Extent:
83 folios

90. Harley MS 3360

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3360
Title:
Thomas Hobbes, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques
Scope & Content:
Thomas Hobbes's unpublished tract on optics, A minute or first Draught of the Optiques, dedicated to William Cavendish, marquis of Newcastle. It contains a title page (f. 1r), the dedication to Cavendish (ff. 2r-4r), a list of contents (ff. 5r-5v), and Hobbes's tract on optics in two parts (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1646
Extent:
1 volume

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