Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Digitised Content Platform: BL legacy Digitised Manuscripts (unavailable) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3849, ff 62r-77v
Title:: Quaestiones medicine, including works attributed to the Salernitan physician Urso of Calabria
Scope & Content:: Quaestiones medicine, including works attributed to the Salernitan physician Urso of Calabria (d. 1225). Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Incipit: 'Ortis medicinalis iudicio difficili ad cu/mulum'. The collection includes: 1. ff. 72v-75r: Urso of Calabria, Liber de effectibus qualitat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 16 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3865
Title:: Robert Henryson, Fables
Scope & Content:: A series of 13 verse fables with moralisations, and two prologues, containing altogether 2968 lines, arranged in 416 seven-line stanzas and 7 eight-line stanzas. The author, Robert Henryson, is thought to have composed this text during the 1470s (Ward, Catalogue of Romances (1893), II, 354), usi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1571
Extent:: 1 volume

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892, ff 1r-8v
Title:: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect. Decoration: 1 large initial 'V'(estra) in red surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text. Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892, ff 9r-16v
Title:: De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica
Scope & Content:: De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892, ff 17r-24v
Title:: Treatise on geometry
Scope & Content:: Treatise on geometry in Italian, incipit: 'Geometria e una de le septe arti liberali...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892, ff 25r-34r
Title:: Horace, Ars poetica
Scope & Content:: Horace, Ars poetica. Decoration: Initial in red at the beginning of the text (f. 25v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425-1454
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892, ff 34v-40r
Title:: Horace, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: Horace, Epistolae. Decoration: Large initial in red at the beginning of the text (f. 34v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425-1454
Extent:: 6 folios + ff. 41-42 (original flyleaves)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3915
Title:: Collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts on techniques and technology of various arts
Scope & Content:: f. 1v: A recipe for making colours, an extract from the Mappae clavicula. ff. 2r-109v: Theophilus, De diversis artibus. ff. 109v-113v: Heraclius, De coloribus et artibus romanorum. ff. 114r-114v: De temperamento vesice escivi: an extract from a text on book illumination. ff. 114v-115v: De si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1200
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

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