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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5679, ff 10-209
Title:: Dioscorides Pedanius, De materia medica, Books 1-5. Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei de materia medica libri quinque, ed. M. Wellmann, Berlin 1907-1914, i p.1 - iii p.108. Preceded by (ff. 2-8v) πίναξ (iii pp.109-135).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5693, f 1
Title:: Greek alphabet in antique capitals. Tit. Ἀλφάβητος τῶν κδʹ γραμμάτων κατὰ τοὺς παλαιοὺς ῞Ελληνας. Very similar to the alphabet in Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, MS 80.22.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5735, ff 130-135v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Lycophron's Alexandra. Imperfect at the beginning and end, comprising a commentary on verses 28-132.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6326, ff 2-7v
Title:: Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum, Book II chs 2-3, 5-7 Aretaeus, ed. C. Hude (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 2), Leipzig-Berlin 1923, pp.162-167, l. 2 Tit. Ἀρεταίου Καππαδόκου περὶ ὀξέων νούσων βιβλίον α (the usual title of Book V). Followed by two blank leaves.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7576, ff 31-44
Title:: Abbreviations used in the Cromwell Psalter (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Cromwell 5), compiled by Humfrey Wanley. Also included are a partial facsimile of the text and a cipher (f. 31).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 122r-123r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'N'(os) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 122r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 165r-173r
Title:: Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum)
Scope & Content:: Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum). Includes a 16th-century marking with maniculae, possibly by John Dee (see Barker-Benfield, 2008). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'O'(mnes) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'o' (f. 165r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2269 ff 1r-8r
Title:: Astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon'
Scope & Content:: An astrological text attributed to 'Frater Rogerius Bacon', incipit: 'Notandum est that in eu..y(?) ingenient there ben 4 things to be sowght'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r
Title:: Hippocrates, Aphorismata
Scope & Content:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates in seven books in Latin and Irish. The Latin version is that of Nicholaus Leonicenus, the Italian physician and humanist (b. 1428, d. 1524), which was first printed in 1524. Each Latin aphorism is followed by an Irish translation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 37 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402, ff 26v-54v
Title:: Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), De interrogationibus
Scope & Content:: Zahel's De interrogationibus. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 29 folios.

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