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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913
Title:: Miscellany of humanistic texts
Scope & Content:: Miscellany of humanistic texts, mostly Latin, including speeches and bulls of Pius II, works by Porcelius and Flavio Biondo, extracts from Ovid and a Maximos Planoudes' translation into Greek of Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 119 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5051
Title:: Extracts partly compiled by Robert Yeamans (d.1665) (see Fontes p.365) from Greek and Latin authors. The authors extracted are Cicero (ff. 3-4v, 28-31v, 101-103v), Persius (ff. 31-32, 103v-104), Terence (ff. 5-6v, 33-45v, 104v-106v), Horace (ff. 6v-7, 46, 107), Cyprian (ff. 83-87), Plutarch (ff. 8-27v, 46v-82v), and St John Chrysostom (ff. 88-100v, 107v-114) using H. Savile's 1610-1612 edition of Chrysostom.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5110
Title:: Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:: A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5113
Title:: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 9r-221v: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones, preceded by a chapter list (ff. 1r-8v), with marginal Latin translations of corresponding passages in Greek. Decoration: 1 full colour historiated initial including a portrait of a male figure holding a book, with foliate dec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5156
Title:: Collection of law cases and notes on law lectures
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Law cases in French and English; with on f. 12v the inscription: 'The Lawe off the Lord Resete in oure hartes Amen'. f. 14r: 'Damasus papa in epistola ad Jeronimum i'. ff. 15r-23v: Notes on lectures on Law by Reginald Corbell, written in French, dated to 1552, headed: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1552-c 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5319
Title:: Compilations of French texts with German vocabulary and practice sentences; Arabic book with Qur'an text; The Fifteen Oes
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts, containing a 17th-century compilation of French letters and German vocabulary and practice sentences (ff. 2r-69v); an Arabic book that may have been written in the 15th or 16th century (ff. 70r-109v); and a copy of the Fifteen Oes, date...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5342
Title:: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122). Contents: ff. 1r-231v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum. [[f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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