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1. Add MS 17808

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 17808
Title:
Scientific treatises on Music, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific works. It opens with treatises on music by the Italian Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo (b. c. 995, d. 1050) that were highly influential in the development of polyphonic music and staff notation. The section on music is followed by works on ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Royal MS 13 A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:
Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Sloane MS 1621

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1621
Title:
Antidotarium and medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory
Scope & Content:
An antidotarium and various medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory. Contents: ff. 1r-v: Psalms 18:2-15. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Celi enarrant gloriam'. The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10. Explicit: 'Domine adiutor meus et redemp'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Sloane MS 2839

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2839
Title:
Liber cirurgium cauterium; medical recipes; Epistola Peri Hereseon; Tereoperica
Scope & Content:
This 11th-century manuscript contains a collection of didactical texts on practical and theoretical medicine. The format of this volume suggests that it was used as a medical textbook. It includes an illustrated account on cautery points, which was one of the principal medieval treatments, and a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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