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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Trionfi, written in Florence c. 1480 by Nicolaus Mangona, according to de la Mare, 'New Research' (1985), and her unpublished notes at the Bodleia...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Scope & Content:: Contents: Written in Florence or Rome c. 1440-c. 1450, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.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 3535, ff 1r-1v
Title:: Table of contents
Scope & Content:: Table of contents added by a later hand, with an added title 'Libro delle infe[r]mitate delli cavalli' (f. 1r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3535, ff 2r-36r
Title:: Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Scope & Content:: Lu libru di la maniscalchia, the Italian (Sicilian dialect) translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (imperfect at the beginning), incipit: 'Cum zo sia cosa ki intra tuti li animali'. Edition of the text: G. de Gregorio, ‘Il codice de Cruyllis-Spatafora’, Zeits...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 35 folios.

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