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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3480
Title:: Catherine of Siena, Lettere
Scope & Content:: Contents: 86 letters of Catherine of Siena,preceded by a titulus: ''Incipiunt epistole gloriose virginis beatissime k[a]terine desenis recollecte per reverendum in christo p[at]rem do[mi]num stephanum de senis priore[m] monasterii sancte Marie de gratiis p[...]pe papiam ordinis cartuse. Questo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3483
Title:: Pseudo-Joachim, Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Pseudo-Joachim, Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, in Italian. ff. 65r-65v: Giudicio e Dichiaratione della Ruota Soggionta, in Italian. ff. 66r-67r: Dichiaratione dell'oracolo turchesco, in Italian. Decoration: 35 full-page monochrome illustrations of the content of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3489
Title:: An atlas of portolan charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:: This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's seven charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. Contents: ff. [1v-2r]: A map of the two hemispheres (Cha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3496
Title:: Petrarch, Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: The foliation starts with f. 196, which is a paper flyleaf, and is labelled 'Harley MS 3496, art. 6 (spine, f. [i]).ff. 197-234: Petrarch, Trionfi, written in Florence c. 1480 by Nicolaus Mangona, according to de la Mare, 'New Research' (1985), and her unpublished notes at the Bodleia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3508
Title:: An Italian summary of the De temporibus of Matteo Palmieri
Scope & Content:: A summary in vernacular Italian of Matteo Palmieri's (b. 1406, d. 1475) De temporibus, a 15th-century compilation about the history of the world from the creation, of which only the portion starting from Christ's birth to 1448 was translated in this manuscript. Contents: ff. 1-42v: 'Summario d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3517
Title:: Petrarch, Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: Written in Florence or Rome c. 1440-c. 1450, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. f. 1: Added verses in Italian, 15th century 'Neltempo cherinova emie sospiri...' (f. 1r). ff. 2-41: Petrarch, Trionfi. f. 26v: Omitted verse added vertica...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1440s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3518/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 3518
Scope & Content:: Detached Harleian red leather binding, tooled in gold, with five paper fragments, featuring inscriptions in a number of different hands. The binding and fragments were previously attached to Harley MS 3518 (a copy of Virgil's Aeneid) and are now stored separately.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 3518

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3530
Title:: Collection of excerpts from St Jerome; Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia; Pope Pius II, De Roma; Pulcra dicta sanctorum; De consolatione et timoris penitentie; 'Master Frater Antonio', Sono li Dodeci Articuli de la fede nostra; Sono li Dieci Commandamenti de la lege Christiana Dati da Dio a Moises in suse el Monte Sinay; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola sancti Bernardi ad Raymundum militem de re familiari gubernanda; Peter Damian, De gloria paradisi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-83v: A collection of excerpts from various works of St Jerome, preceded by a table of contents; also including a letter on the death of Jerome attributed to Eusebius of Cremona; and the Life of St Malchus of Syria by Jerome. f. 83v: Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1463
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3535
Title:: Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes veterinary tracts relating to horses, written mostly in the Sicilian dialect. Contents as follows: Table of contents (ff. 1r-1v); Lu libru di la maniscalchia, translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (ff. 2r-36r); Notes on veterinary ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 156 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3547
Title:: Statutes of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Pietà di Firenze
Scope & Content:: Statutes of the Company of St Mary of the Pietà, a Florentine lay confraternity. Vertical catchwords. Ruled in hardpoint. Unfinished initials showing underdrawing (ff. 12r, 19v). Vestiges of a previous binding on f. [29]. Decoration: Full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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