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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3406
Title:: Collection of sonnets, epistles and canzoni of Niccolò da Correggio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: An index of incipits, organised alphabetically. ff. 9r-191v: Collection of sonnets, epistles and canzoni of Niccolò da Correggio (b. 1450, d. 1508), beginning: '[A]more fortuna e mia natura in parte'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3410
Title:: Petrarch, Rime
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3-145v: Petrarch, Rime. f. 1 is a paper flyleaf; f. 2 is a parchment leaf. Some lines of the sonnets have been inked out (ff. 55r, 69r, and 69v). Decoration: Full white vine border in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch in a medallion, other medallions with geometri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3415
Title:: Ovid, De arte amandi, Italian translation
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: added Italian poem in a 15th century hand. ff. 2r-45v: Ovid, De arte amandi (On the Art of Love), translated into Italian. ff. 45v-51v: Moralising poem. ff. 1r, [1bv] are blank. According to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this manuscr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3435
Title:: Account of the 1623 papal conclave; legal documents concerning taxes
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately. The first part (ff. 1-130) contains an Italian account of the 1623 papal conclave in which Urban VIII was elected. The second part (ff. 131-161r) contains legal documents concerning taxes, dating to 1465-1466. Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1465-1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3442
Title:: Petrarch, Il canzoniere; Trionfi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Il canzoniere (Song book) and Trionfi (Triumphs), two poetry collections by the Italian humanist, scholar, and poet Francesca Petrarca (b. 1304, d. 1374), commonly known as Petrarch. The scribe was responsible for two other Petrarchan manuscripts: Bodleian Library, MSS...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3448
Title:: Fiore de virtù e de costumi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Fiore de virtù e de costumi (Flower of Virtue and of Manners), an Italian work on virtues and vices that was composed in the early 14th century. It consists of 36 chapters, each of which discusses a particular virtue or vice by drawing a comparison with an animal, cit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3450
Title:: An atlas of 17 sea 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 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3453
Title:: Memorie de l’Anno Santo MDCLXXV
Scope & Content:: Manuscript diary of the Jubilee Year of 1675 presided over by Pope Clemens X, in Italian, written by Abbott Ruggiero Caetano of Rome. Presentation volume dedicated to James II, King of Great Britain, bound. Contents: f. 1: Title page inscribed within an engraved border and decorated with the ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1675-1688
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3459
Title:: Dante Alighieri, Commedia; the canzone 'Guai a chi nel tormento' attributed to Dante
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-138r: Dante Alighieri, Commedia, with a commentary subjoined to each canto, the metrical prologue by Jacopo Alighieri and arguments in verse and prose for the three canticles. ff. 138r-138v: A canzone attributed to Dante, beginning: 'Guai a chi nel tormento / sua non puo spand...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3460
Title:: Dante Alighieri, Commedia; Pseudo-Dante, Credo di Dante
Scope & Content:: This manuscript containing Dante's Commedia was written by Martin de Bonsegnoribus in Milan in 1469. It contains several drawings of scenes from the poem. Contents: ff. 5r-86r: Dante Alighieri, Commedia, preceded by the verse capitoli by Bosone da Gubbio (ff. 2r-3r) and Jacopo Alighieri (ff. 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1469
Extent:: 1 volume

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