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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5347
Title:: Vita of St Margaret of Antioch
Scope & Content:: A verse Life of St Margaret of Antioch that the introduction attributes to a Theotimus, supposedly a witness to her martyrdom. Contents: ff. 1r-54r: life of St Margaret of Antioch. ff. 55r-56r: prayer to the Virgin Mary. f. 56v: incomplete inscription remarking on St Margaret’s legend: ‘Seg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5355
Title:: Papal letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Letters by Pope Clement VII, Paul III and Julius III; ‘Litterae Civitatis Neopolitan.’; several signed by ‘Blosius’, the latest dated to 1541. ff. 40r-43r: An index for the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5381
Title:: Enea Vico da Parma, Coins of the Twelve Caesars
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Enea Vico da Parma (b. 1523, d. 1567), drawings of coins (12 per page) of Roman Emperors [The Twelve Caesars], organised according to emperor; each emperor has his own frontispiece. Decoration: Original drawings in black ink used for engravings in Vico’s Le imagini con t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: Includes: A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v); Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r); Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r); 5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin: Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1340
Extent:: 104 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5427
Title:: Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (Elegy of Lady Fiammetta), a work by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. The text is written in the form of a first-person monologue and details the love of its protagonist the Lady Fiam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5454
Title:: Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1090
Extent:: 1 text, 29 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5631
Title:: Chronicle of Constantinople from Constantine the Great to Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and Ps.-Kodinos, De structura templi S. Sophiae.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 28 Aug 1555
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5670
Title:: Demosthenes, Speeches
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 17 items

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