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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v
Title:: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour, Robert Grosseteste, Rules, and other text including charms.
Scope & Content:: The second unit of the manuscript includes: Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d'amour (Bestiary of love) (ff. 70r-81r); Robert Grosseteste, Rules (ff. 81r-85r); Rules of Friendship or La Diffinission de Amurs (ff. 85r-85v); Charm against wounds (f. 85v) and Charm for bloodletting (f. 85v). Decorat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5664, ff 71-128v
Title:: (8). Aristophanes, Plutus. ff. 73-75 are misbound: ff. 73-74 contain lines 235-270 and f. 75 lines 123-140. Preceded by (f. 71) a Life of Aristophanes and (ff. 71v-72) a prose argument of the Plutus. Marginal and interlinear scholia.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1490-1519
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6295, ff 1-20
Title:: (1). Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata (lib. I-II). Ideler i pp.3-80. Here marked Βιβλίον αʹ. inc. Τῶν προβλημάτων τὰ μὲν ἐστὶ πιστὰ καὶ γνώριμα. expl. ἐνδιδόναι τῆς οἰκείας ὁρμῆς καὶ φορᾶς.
Scope & Content:: Problemata (lib. I-II). Ideler i pp.3-80
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6307, ff 55v-56v
Title:: Prose argument to Nubes attributed in Arundel 530 to Thomas Magister. inc. Ἄνυτος καὶ Μέλιτος Σωκράτει. Followed by scholia on the beginning of Nubes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Bald's Leechbook (20 remedies), imperfect, incipit: 'Wið þære heal Fdeadan adle and hwanon seo cume seo adl cymð on þa swiðran healfe'; explicit: 'wæteres bollan / Fulne to gedrincanne'. The text corresponds to chapter 59 of book 2 of the 'Laecebok' or Leechbook, copied by Cild for Bald at the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 273, ff 70r-85v, ff 81r-85r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Rules
Scope & Content:: Robert Grosseteste, Rules (Les Reules Seynt Roberd), incipit: 'Ici cumencent les reules qui Ro/bert Grosteste'. Originally written for Alice de Lacy, countess of Lincoln, widow of Thomas of Lancaster. For the text see S. H. Thomson, The Writings of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 1300-1329
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6297, ff 109v-111
Title:: Letter to Constantine Palaeologos. PG 158.932-933 (ep. XXIII); BHG, l. 3 1465w; Eustratiades ii p.8.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 30 Aug 1595
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531, ff 3r-142r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Greek-Latin lexicon. Very few entries, taken only from Aristophanes and Isocrates.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 140 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
Title:: Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
Scope & Content:: This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1100
Extent:: 19 folios, part of a parchment codex

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