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1. Harley MS 941, ff 6r-21r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 6r-21r
Title:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi
Scope & Content:
Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago mundi.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
16 folios.

2. Harley MS 941, f 26v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, f 26v
Title:
Medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Medical recipes (six recipes). Title underlined in red 'For passey or þe failyng yvyl', incipit: 'Ys gode to drynk ys own / water ix daes et in quantity'. Listed in L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd ed. (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 folio.

3. Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 1r-3v
Title:
De origine gigantum
Scope & Content:
De origine gigantum, a Latin abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman Des Grantz Geanz, a short narrative telling the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leaves may have been taken from a different manuscript. For the text see Carley and Crick 1995.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

4. Harley MS 941, ff 58r-61r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 58r-61r
Title:
Treatises on magic
Scope & Content:
Three short treatises on magic: Dorotheus Sidonius, Capitulum de occultatione anuli (f. 58r); Messahala, De occultis (ff. 58v-59v); Tractatus Dorothei in occultis (ff. 59v-61r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

5. Harley MS 941, ff 27r-29r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 27r-29r
Title:
Astronomical and astrological diagrams
Scope & Content:
Astronomical and astrological diagrams of the planetary spheres (f. 27r); positions of the sun and earth (ff. 27r-27v); the universe with Hell in the centre (f. 28r); the zodiac, the longitude of the sun (f. 29r); a computistical volvelle to calculate Easter (f. 29v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

6. Harley MS 941, ff 100v-103v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 100v-103v
Title:
'Modus acquirendi sapientiam'
Scope & Content:
A text entitled 'Modus acquirendi sapientiam', incipit: 'Volentibus parvenire ad sapientiam'. Added note, incipit: 'Opto illud in contingere' (f. 103r-103v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

7. Harley MS 941, ff 61v-71v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 61v-71v
Title:
Texts relating to geography
Scope & Content:
Texts relating to geography, Rubric: 'De magnitudine terre in orbe suo' incipit: Terre ergo magnitudo'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
11 folios.

8. Harley MS 941, ff 91r-97v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 91r-97v
Title:
Treatise relating to rhetoric
Scope & Content:
Treatise relating to rhetoric, incipit: 'Et si dictantos'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
7 folios.

9. Harley MS 941, ff 97v-100r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 97v-100r
Title:
Satirical verse against the clergy
Scope & Content:
Satirical verse against the clergy, incipit: 'Viri beatissimi sacerdotes Dei / Precones altissimi lucerne Diei' (ff. 97v-99r) with notes (ff. 99v-100r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
4 folios.

10. Harley MS 941, ff 24r-25r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941, ff 24r-25r
Title:
John Lydgate, Dietary
Scope & Content:
John Lydgate, Dietary; incipit: 'For helth of þe body cover frome cold þe hed / Ete no raw mete take gode hede þerito', explicit: 'to indifferent rycheft and dietari / Explicit concilium corporis et anime / Explicit dietarys particularis'. Edited in John Lydgate, Minor Poems, ed. by H. N. MacC...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
2 folios.