We're very grateful for the postive feedback we've received about our Harley Science Project, and are delighted to announce that another batch of manuscripts has been made available via the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site. In this update you can learn about the veterinary science of horses, courtesy of late medieval Sicily, find the solar tables for the years 1292-1295 in a French astronomical miscellany, and brush up on your Aristotle, thanks to a 14th-century German compilation.

Harley 3475  Platina's Epitome of Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia (Italy, c. 1462-c. 1466)

Harley 3487  Aristotle, Libri naturales (England, 13th century)

Detail of the beginning of Aristotle's De generatione (London, British Library, MS Harley 3487, f. 121v).

Harley 3535  Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia (Sicily, 15th-16th century)

Harley 3595  Works on mathematics by Boethius and others (Germany, 10th-11th century)

Drawing of the constallation Perseus, with Perseus holding the head of Medusa, in a copy of Scholia in Germanicum Sangermanensia (London, British Library, MS Harley 3595, f. 49r).

Harley 3631  Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Works on astronomy (Italy, 1171-1464)

Harley 3647  Astronomical miscellany (France, c. 1300)

Theorica planetarum attributed to Gerard of Cremona (London, British Library, MS Harley 3647, f. 81r).

Harley 3662  Pietro de’ Crescenzi, Ruralia commoda (England, 15th century)

Harley 3704  Excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on his works (Cologne, 1339-c. 1340)

Harley 3706  Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary (England, 15th century)

Harley 3717  Thomas of Cantimpré, De naturis rerum (?Louvain, 13th century)

A scribal correction in Thomas of Cantimpré's De naturis rerum (London, British Library, MS Harley 3717, f. 37r).

The publication of more scientific manuscripts will be announced on this blog in the coming weeks.