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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 36-94
Title:: Vitae Sanctorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Caelesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'. ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St St...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5636, ff 99v-101v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Saying about Marcellus extracted from Ioannes Moschos, Pratum Spirituale. See Revue de l'Orient Chrétien 7 (1902) pp. 613-614.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5697, ff 135-138v
Title:: Proclus of Athens, Institutio physica. Imperfect, expl. οὐκ ἄρα ἔστιν ἄπειρος βαρύτης οὐδὲ κουφότης (Procli Diadochi Lycii Institutio Physica, ed. A. Ritzenfeld, Leipzig 1912, p.44, l. 14 ).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5796, f 323r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Προκείμενα ἄμνημα τῶν ηʹ ἤχων, and Τὰ ἄμνημα ἀλλή() τῶν ηʹ ἤχων.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 13, ff 119v-122r
Title:: Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti
Scope & Content:: Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'C' in gold and colours at the beginning of the text; with a guide letter 'e' and a letter 'e' correcting the initial in the margin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1310
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1706, ff 96r-214v
Title:: Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:: 1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1520
Extent:: 118 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 10r-11v
Title:: Table of contents of the herbal
Scope & Content:: Table of contents of the herbal (see ff. 13r-64v); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The table lists the ailments from head to toe with the name of the relevant remedial herb. Incipit: 'Pro dolore capitis capitulo absinthium'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Sci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 175r-184v
Title:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 1r-41r
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and black ink with penwork decoration, and smaller initials in red, some with penwork decoration; quide letters next to initials. Paraphs in red and first letters of verses highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-1440
Extent:: 41 folios.

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