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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3577
Title:: Anthology of Italian verse treatises
Scope & Content:: Two volumes of Italian verse treatises, one from the 16th and the other from the 15th century, which were bound together in the 18th century. Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Francesco Maria Molza (b. 1489, d. 1544), La Ficheide with commentary by Annibale Caro (b. 1507, d. 1566). ff. 82r-136v: Relation...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1481-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3580
Title:: Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: Title inscriptions: '1557 Ovidio Methamorphoeos vulgare'; added in the 16th century. f. 1*recto: A Latin poem: 'Cur non omnes hunc Scrip. Libellum'; added in the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3581
Title:: Dante Alighieri, Commedia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-226v: Dante Alighieri, Commedia:Inferno (ff. 2r-80v), Purgatorio (ff. 81v-152v); Paradiso (ff. 153r-226v). f. 226v: Colophon by Geri di Gherardo Risaliti, followed by two lines in Latin, and the Latin epitaph written by Bernardo Canaccio in 1366: 'Iura monarchiae superos Phleg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1464
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:: This herbal was probably produced in southern Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century or the first quarter of the 16th century. It contains Giovanni Cadamosto’s herbal, which includes materials from the Tacuinum sanitatis, a Latin translation from an Arabic work on the medical purposes o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1475 - c 1525
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Herbal
Scope & Content:: Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. Cadamosto, presented in 1471 his original text to Borso d’Este, marquis of Ferrara (1450-1471), now Paris, BnF, MS it. 1108 (see Le muse e ii principe, Arte di corte nel Rinascimento padano, II, 1991, no. 54, pp. 209-10). Decoration: Coloured pen drawi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 80 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3736, ff 81r-158v
Title:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones
Scope & Content:: Giovanni Cadamosto, Treatises on food, poisons and remedies, and the properties of stones.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 78 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3814 B
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of two. The first volume is now Harley MS 3814 A. A prayer book in Latin with rubrics in Italian. Includes: Seven Penitential Psalms with litanies (ff. 1r-20v), prayers to various saints (ff. 21r-69r), devotional texts on ten commandments, seven deadly sins...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892
Title:: Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1454
Extent:: 58 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892, ff 17r-24v
Title:: Treatise on geometry
Scope & Content:: Treatise on geometry in Italian, incipit: 'Geometria e una de le septe arti liberali...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3938
Title:: Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers; Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis; moral poems; Odo of Cheriton, Parabolae; exempla
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1*recto: A title page ‘Philosoph[orum] Vita ac Gesta’. ff. 1r-78v: Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers, organized chronologically. ff. 80r-107v: Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis. f. 108r: Latin verses, two of which are derived from Ovid, Ars Amatoria. f. 108v-109r: 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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