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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2558, ff 6r-6v
Title:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs
Scope & Content:: Medical annotations including four medical recipes for coughs, a charm and notes on various herbs. Rubric: 'Contra tussim', incipit: 'Recipe suthernywode et bene / pistetur'; notes on herb remedies 'Pro paloseie i. paralisis', incipit: 'Recipe Galangis mentem et salinam'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3631, ff 1r-57r
Title:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville
Scope & Content:: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville. Decoration: Initials in red. Added marginal drawing of a couple embracing (f. 42r). Astronomical tables: ff. 29r, 29v, 30v, 44r, 46r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1171
Extent:: 57 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3719, ff 31v-32v
Title:: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum); Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis (John of Seville) or Johannes (David) Toletanus (12th century). Rubric (f. 31v): 'Incipit epistola aristotilis qui / scripsit ad Alexandrum regem', ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5618, ff 1-58v
Title:: Hephaestion, Enchiridion de metris. Cod. H in T. Gaisford, Hephaestionis Enchiridion, 2nd edn Leipzig 1832, and M. Consbruch, Hephaestionis Enchiridion, Leipzig 1906 (see p.xi).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1453-1470
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5740, ff 3-185
Title:: Sylvester Syropoulos, Account of the Council of Florence (1438-1439). Recension B in V. Laurent, Les Mémoires du Grand Ecclésiarque de l'Église de Constantinople, Sylvestre Syropoulos sur le concile de Florence (1438-1439) (Concilium Florentinum, Documenta et Scriptores, sér. B ix), Rome 1971, p.578. This MS is not cited in Laurent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6932
Title:: Latin and English poems by Payne Fisher
Scope & Content:: An octavo manuscript collection of Latin and English poems by Payne Fisher (1615/16-1693). Entitled ‘Fancies on seuerall occasions written and reuis’ed heere from Julij: 6t: 1645: to Apr: 4: 1647’ (f. 1v) and dedicated to Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (1598-1690). Many of the poems relate to F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1645-1647
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 337, ff 32r-53v
Title:: Sentences on the Scripture with numerous extracts from Origen's Homilies
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 32r-53v: Sentences on the Scripture borrowing extracts from Origen, Homilia super Leviticum (Homily on Leviticus), Homilia super Genesim (Homily on Genesis), Homilia super Exodum (Homily on Exodus), Homilia in Jeremiam (Homily on Jeremiah), including extracts from Gregory the Grea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 337

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 531, ff 59r-63v
Title:: Iohannes Danco de Saxonia, Canons on the eclipse of the sun and moon.
Scope & Content:: Iohannes Danco de Saxonia, Canons on the eclipse of the sun and moon, incipit: 'Eclipsum solis quantitatem.' Decoration: Initials in blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century, before 1474
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 42v-43r
Title:: A collection of definitions and maxims, incipit: 'Doctrina est propositura rei demonstraciones partes explicans...'
Scope & Content:: The manuscript title of this collection reads: 'Axiomata quaedam philosophica' (added by a later hand).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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