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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v
Title:: Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali'
Scope & Content:: Veterinary tract in Italian (Sicilian dialect? with some Latin words and terms) entitled here (f. 40r) 'La medicina deli cavali'; Preface incipit (f. 41r): 'Dozarmu alluremi fia crucem + prima et + ingatur ecus passus'; with a table of contents (ff. 41v-43r); incipit (f. 43r): 'Allu nomi dideu i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:: 117 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3547
Title:: Statutes of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Pietà di Firenze
Scope & Content:: Statutes of the Company of St Mary of the Pietà, a Florentine lay confraternity. Vertical catchwords. Ruled in hardpoint. Unfinished initials showing underdrawing (ff. 12r, 19v). Vestiges of a previous binding on f. [29]. Decoration: Full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3549
Title:: History of Venice to 1439
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-123v: a history of Venice, up to the year 1439, in Italian, beginning, 'Segondo che trouo scripto in una et piu croniche dice &'. Decoration: Large initial in grey and red ink and 2 coloured initials in alternating red or grey (f. 1r). Spaces for initials left blank or...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3555
Title:: Petrarch, Rime
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-120: Petrarch, Rime. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue; coat of arms in brown and red ink in the lower margin (f. 1r). Alternating blue initials with red penwork and red initials with mauve penwork.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3558
Title:: Il Maggio: overo Il Palio Conquistato, A poem by Giovanni Camillo Peresio
Scope & Content:: Fairly written manuscript volume containing a poem by Giovanni Camillo Peresio, written in the Romanesco dialect of Italian. The volume is titled 'Il Maggio: overo Il Palio Conquistato, Poema Epicogiocoso Nel linguaggio del Volog di Roma di Giovanni Camillo Peresio, Dedicato al Serenissimo e Re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3566
Title:: Italian translation of Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerario por las regiones subequinocciales; João Bermudes, description of Ethiopia; Life of Prospero Publicola Santacroce; history of the Confraternita della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-3*verso: Index to Alessandro Geraldini's Itinerario por las regiones subequinocciales. ff. 4*recto-4*verso: Introduction by 'Il Cavalier Pompeo Mongallo da Lionessa della militia di Giesu Chr[ist]o'. ff. 1r-77v: Italian translation of Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerario por...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3567
Title:: Petrarch, Il Canzoniere and I Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-v: pen-trialling and ownership inscriptions. ff. 1r-8r: index of poems. ff. 9r-148v: Petrarch, Il Canzoniere (The Songbook). ff. 149r-189r: Petrarch, I Trionfi (The Triumphs). ff. 8v, 175v, 189v are blank. Written by Matteo Contugi of Volterra: colophon, 'Manu Matthaei ol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1465
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3571
Title:: A Life of the Virgin Mary and Christ, in Italian
Scope & Content:: This manuscript features an Italian text that can be described as a vita of the Virgin Mary and Christ, although it also highlights the role of St Joseph after Christ's death. The narrative starts with the Virgin's birth and childhood and ends with her assumption into heaven. Perhaps another ver...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3573
Title:: Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. Decoration: A drawing of a human face in the lower margin of f. 12r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3576
Title:: Account of the families in Messina
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 27r-228v: Account of the families in Messina; according to Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 43, the manuscript is entitled: 'Il Libro Famiglie degli de Messine'. This title was probably legible on the manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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