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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3017, ff. 113v-132v
Title:: 'Incipit calculatio quomodo reperiri possit quota feria singulis annis XIIIIa vel Pasche ocurrat'
Scope & Content:: A computistical text entitled 'Incipit calculatio quomodo reperiri possit quota feria singulis annis XIIIIa vel Pasche ocurrat', incipit: 'Primo anno circuli decennovenali XXX est luna in kalendis aprilis'; with other excerpts. Includes a digram of the wind rota (f. 128v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3969, ff 216r-224r
Title:: Joachim of Fiore, Commentary on Revelation (imperfect, text missing at the beginning)
Scope & Content:: Incipit: '...signat. Ut enim proferamus breviter que non brevi coartanda sunt...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 9 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913, ff 82r-91r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Pius II, Speech at the Congress of Mantua (1459). Inc. Cum in bellum hodie adversus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 10 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5626, ff 1v-51
Title:: (1). Aetius of Amida, Libri medicinales, III. Tit. Ἀρχὴ ξὺν θεῷ ἁγίῳ Ἰατροσόφιον ποιηθὲν ὑπὸ διαφόρων φιλοσόφων ... inc Πρὸ τῶν γυμνασίων θερμαίνειν τὸ σῶμα χρὴ. expl. ταῖς ξηραῖς δὲ καὶ θερμαῖς διαθέσεσιν οὐ προσφέρω τὰ τοιαῦτα. Preceded by (ff. 2*-4, 1) capitula.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 204r-215v
Title:: Prayers, poems and recipes for making colours and dying textiles
Scope & Content:: Sixth unit includes: Prayers; incipit: 'Dona michi queso omnipotente deus' (ff. 204r-209r); Recipes to make colours for illuminating books and dying textiles, followed by poems and prayers (ff. 209r-213r); Recipes and charms for fever, cancer, gout, bloodletting, nail in the eye, child-birth...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1121, ff 1*r-2v*
Title:: Table of contents and inscriptions
Scope & Content:: Table of contents in a 17th-century hand; an added ownership (?) inscription of Lucas Anstiy (Anstis?) (f. 2*r); and a dedication of the book to Robert Harley from John Anstis (f. 2*v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1724
Extent:: 2 parchment flyleaves

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 1r-3r
Title:: Index of words and list of contents
Scope & Content:: Index of words and list of contents added by the owner of the manuscript John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century-before 1722
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 12r-14r
Title:: Text on seven herbs and seven planets
Scope & Content:: Text on seven herbs and seven planets. The text describes the therapeutic properties of the seven planets. In the manuscript tradition it was ascribed to Alexius Affricus, Flaccus Africanus or to the tradition of the Liber Kyranidarum Kyrani. Incipit 'Solsequium herba est omnibus nota collige er...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 189r-190v
Title:: Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron), Rogerina minor, excerpts
Scope & Content:: Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron, late 13th century), Rogerina minor, excerpts. Text relating to waters. Incipit: 'Humana natura non minus indiget aquis physicalibus quam aliis medicinis'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3199, ff 58v-65r
Title:: Guido of Arezzo, Epistola de cantu ignoto (Epistola ad Michaelem)
Scope & Content:: Guido of Arezzo, Epistola de cantu ignoto, also known as the Epistola ad Michaelem
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half ofthe 12th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

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