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1. Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 8r-17r
Title:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones.
Scope & Content:
Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title: 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
9 folios.

2. Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 1r-7v
Title:
Treatise on rhetoric, incipit 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...'
Scope & Content:
A treatise on rhetoric [imperfect], ends with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. Includes 3 marginal drawings: 2 drawings of a hand pointing a stick or a verge, one of which is accompanied by an inscription 'digit viga', and a knife with an inscription 'cultellus'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
7 folios.

3. Harley MS 866, f 48v

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.

4. Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 33r-48r
Title:
A treatise on rhetoric, incipit: 'Hiis visis ad colores primo accedendum...'
Scope & Content:
A treatise on rhetoric, entitled in the colophon 'tractatus de arte dictandi' (f. 48r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
16 folios.

5. Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866, ff 17r-33r
Title:
Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae.
Scope & Content:
Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae, an allegorical poem reflecting12th-century knowledge of natural sciences.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:
17 folios.

6. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume