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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3347
Title:: A list of the magistrates and other public officers of Venice
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-72r: A list of the magistrates and other public officers of Venice, beginning: ‘Officij e Magistrati che aspetanno da esser fatti per lo eccmo cons de X’. ff. 73r-78v: A list of the Venetian noble families, entitled: ‘Nomi de tutte le casade che ogidi vive de tutta nobelta de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3355
Title:: Jacopone da Todi, religious poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: a doodle of a face in profile and a 17th century Italian inscription. ff. 2r-8r: index of first lines. f. 9v: ownership inscription, 'D. Michel Angel Maria Torri (?) Olivebano Fiorentino'. ff. 10r-251v: Jacopone da Todi, religious poems. ff. 252r-v: added poem, late 16th ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3385
Title:: Petrarch, Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-52: Petrarch, Trionfi (Triumphs). f. 52v is blank. Decoration: Partial white vine border in blue, green, and pink with 1 large white vine initial in gold and, in the lower border, a coat of arms in colours and gold on a white vine panel (f. 1r). 5 small white vine initials i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1460s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3387
Title:: El libro di perfecta penitentia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Italian treatise on penance, beginning: 'In nomine domini. Amen. In comincia una operetta intitulata el libro di perfecta penitentia'. Decoration: Large and small plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3390
Title:: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, translated into Italian by Dante Popoleschi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of an Italian translation of Suetonius' De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), made by Dante Popoleschi (fl. 2nd decade of the 16th century). The text is supplemented with a glossary, containing definitions of classical terms. The work is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century (between 1515 and 1547)
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3392
Title:: Regula Beati Augustini with the exposition of Hugh of Saint-Victor
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Regula Beati Augustini with the exposition of Hugh of Saint-Victor, entitled: 'Incipit Regula Beati Augustini Episcopi patris nostri: cum expositione edita per beatum Vgonem de sancto Victore'; written in Latin and Italian. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3393
Title:: Statutes of the Republic of Venice
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-148v: Statutes of the Republic of Venice in Latin and Italian, continued to c. 1581; with an index (ff. 140r-148v). Large initials with black cadels throughout. The title of the table of contents ('Repertorium') inscribed in gold on f. 140r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3395
Title:: Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as podestà and captain of Koper
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Giovanni Maria Contarini by the Venetian doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545-1553) in 1551. The text concerns Contarini's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the city of Koper, near Trieste (once part of Venetian Is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1551
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3402
Title:: Ovid, Selected works in vernacular Italian
Scope & Content:: Ovid's Heroides and De Pulice in the 14th-century Italian translation by Filippo Ceffi. Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Ovid, Heroides, in vernacular Italian translation, with Preface (f. 1r), begins 'Adcioche tu o lectore abbia apertamente il conoscimento di questo libro...., Heroides (f. 1v) begins '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3403
Title:: Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy. The binding of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1515
Extent:: 1 volume

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