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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2990
Title:: Ritual, Ambrosian Use
Scope & Content:: Contents: Ritual, Ambrosian (i.e. Milan) Use, including a prayer for the duke of Milan and count of Pavia (ff. 42r-v, 48v) and one for the congregation of St Innocent (f. 48v), imperfect. Additional texts (ff. 1r-4v, 50-52v, 122v-124v) and prayers (in the margins) added by 15th- and 16th-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3077
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, Liber exhortationis ad quemdam comitem and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo-Augustine, De vita Christiana, beginning: 'Et ego peccator et ultimus insipientior que ceteris'. ff. 9r-11v: Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, beginning: 'Ante omnia interrogandus est qui negat hominem sine peccato esse posse' ff. 11v-12v: Jerome, Tracta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3223
Title:: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-123v: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 2v: An Italian inscription, beginning: 'Se hai amicizi con alcuno, & aviene che cada in tentazione di fornicazione, porgeli la mano, e non l'abbando'; added in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1478
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3238
Title:: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3264
Title:: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3282
Title:: Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3289
Title:: Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho (On the Jugurthine War) and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy), the latter featuring a preface by the translator. Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Sallust, De bello Jugurtho, in Italian; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3310
Title:: Filippo Roddi, Annales of Ferrara, books 1-3
Scope & Content:: A chronicle of Ferrara, interspersed with images of prominent individuals and their families in the duchy. Written by Filippo Roddi, LLD. ff. 1-4: portrait medallions of members of the Este family of Ferrara, with captions. 1st quarter of the 16th century. f. 5r: title page. ff. 6r-39r: table...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3311
Title:: Filippo Roddi, Annales of Ferrara, books 4-5
Scope & Content:: A chronicle of Ferrara in the 15th and 16th centuries, interspersed with images of the dukes of Ferrara, their families, and other prominent families in the duchy. Written by Filippo Roddi, LLD. Volume written in multiple hands. Folios 392r-405r are smaller and appear to be draft versions of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3314
Title:: Boccaccio, Filocolo, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-255r: Boccaccio, Filocolo, imperfect, missing part of Bk 5. f. 255v is blank. Watermark of scissors (ff. [150b-d]), similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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