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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1735, ff 1r-28v, ff 13v-16v
Title:: Prophecies of Esdras
Scope & Content:: Prophecies of Esdras; prognostications based on Christmas Day, prologue 'Now have ye herd boþn held and yinge / Dyscryeyed many', incipit: 'But3 lystenyt now and 3e sylle here', explicit: 'þat we to hys blys moun comen alle Amen'. Other copies in Harley MS 2252 (ff. 154r-154v), Royal MS 12 E. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5564, ff 20v-21v
Title:: On the ancient preparation of myrrh. Tit. Περὶ τῆς τοῦ μύρου κατασκευῆς ᾧ ἠλείφοντο πάλαι οἱ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἱερεῖς ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Ἐπιφανίου. inc. Τὸν πάλαι χρόνον ὁ θαυμάσιος ἔδωκε.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6297, ff 168v-171v
Title:: Letter to Alupios on the Assumption of the Virgin. BHG, l. 3 1057; Eustratiades i p.258.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 30 Aug 1595
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 866, f 48v
Title:: A treatise on chiromancy [imperfect], incipit: 'Benedictus Deus omnipotens qui machinam mundanam...'
Scope & Content:: Includes the beginning of a treatise on chiromancy. The same text is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 607.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-c 1410
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 72r-79v
Title:: Petrus Candidus Decembrius, Cosmographia seu Liber de Historia peregrina, Book 1
Scope & Content:: Petrus Candidus Decembrius, Cosmographia seu Liber de Historia peregrina, Book 1. Edited in K. Kretschmer, 'Die Kosmographie des Petrus Candidus Decembrius', in Festschrift Ferdinand Freiherrn von Richthofen zum sechzigsten Geburtstag am 5. mai 1893, dargebracht von seinen Schülern (Berlin, 189...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2650, ff 1r-33v
Title:: Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 8 (De astronomia).
Scope & Content:: Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 8 (De astronomia). Decoration: 7 diagrams in red or brown ink (ff. 20r, 23v, 26v, 28r, 28v, 32r, 32v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 70
Title:: Accounts of the Leonard estate, with later inventories of Paul D’Ewes
Scope & Content:: Manuscript accounts, 1581-1593, of William Leonard of Taunton, with papers relating to administration of his estate, 1598-1603, followed by inventories of goods belonging to Paul D’Ewes, 1618-1626. The entries formerly began at each end of the book, so that folios currently numbered 82-116 were ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1581-1626
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 941, ff 80r-90r
Title:: David Pencaer or Penkaer, Tractatus de coloribus rhetoricae
Scope & Content:: David Pencaer or Penkaer, Tractatus de coloribus rhetoricae.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 53r-54v
Title:: C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Excerpts from the Historia naturalis: De positione et cursu VII planetarum (II, c. viii-ix, 32-44); De intervallis earum (II, c. xx-xxii, 83-84); De absidibus earum (II, c. xv-xvi, 59-64); De cursu earum per zodiacum circulum (II, c. xvi, 66-67)
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia naturalis: De positione et cursu VII planetarum (II, c. viii-ix, 32-44); De intervallis earum (II, c. xx-xxii, 83-84); De absidibus earum (II, c. xv-xvi, 59-64); and De cursu earum per zodiacum circulum (II, c. xvi, 66-67). Decorati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5735, ff 84-129v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Synesius, 89 letters (Hercher 1-3, 5, 4, 6-31, 35, 36, 38-42, 57, 58, 44, 45, 34, 46, 78, 47, 48, 50-56, 59-65, 67, 66, 71-75, 99, 77, 79, 83-86, 89-91, 94-98, 100-105). Imperfect, expl. ἀναίτιος ὦ (Hercher p.70511). 1 folio also lost after f 123.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 46 folios

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