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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3949
Title:: Collection of Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript, the first part of which (ff. 1-71) contains a humanistic miscellany comprising Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts, the second (ff. 72-103) preserves humanist Latin translations of Greek works relating to Classical education. Contents: ff. 1r-69v: written by Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1455
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3990
Title:: Petrarch, Trionfi, sonnets, and songs
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-31r: Petrarch, I Trionfi (Triumphs), imperfect, the first 10 leaves wanting. ff. 31v-169r: Petrarch, sonnets and songs. ff. 170r-175r: examples of address for different churchmen, late 15th century. f. 175v: late 15th century inscription of a form of address, Latin. 2 blank are ruled ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4082
Title:: Anthology of Italian Humanistic Texts
Scope & Content:: A 15th-century Italian humanistic manuscript comprising literary texts in Italian including speeches, translations and literary history. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Inscriptions with drawing of a head of a devil in brown ink (probably originally with an ownership inscription but the name has been era...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4087
Title:
Scope & Content:: Collection of Medical Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. (1445). Latin and Italian. Copies. Imperfect. A miscellaneous volume including medical and surgical treatises by Giovanni da Parma (art. 1, ff. 1-5v), Dominico da Ragusa (art. 2, ff. 11-22v), Bernard de Gordon (art. 3, ff. 23-26), Benvenutu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4110
Title:: Account of the city of Venice and coats of arms of its noble families
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Account of the city of Venice to the year 1381, with a list of its noble families. Followed by their coats of arms, painted in colours and accompanied by names and descriptions up to the family of Canabrii, originally in alphabetical order but now rearranged, written in I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4167
Title:: Tommaso Campanella, La monarchia di Spagna
Scope & Content:: A copy of La monarchia di Spagna, which was written by the Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian Tommaso Campanella (b. 1568, d. 1639) in 1598, and contains advice for the King of Spain on how to attain universal monarchy of the world. Contents: ff. 1r-120v: Tommaso Campanella, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1600-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4230
Title:: Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1591-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4484
Title:: Collection of Latin inscriptions with translations and poems in French
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: 'Inscriptions de la Place des Victories, par Regnier des Marais'; Latin inscriptions , dated 1643-1686, with French translations. ff. 9r-14r: 'De Erasmo'; Latin inscriptions on Erasmus with many written at Paris by Jean-Baptiste de Santeul [Santolius] (b. 1630, d. 1697) a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4770
Title:: Statutes of Venice
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: modern table of contents. f. 1*v: short text on women. ff. 1r-40r: Statutes of Venice. ff, 42r-60v: additional statutes down to 1472. ff. [ii]-[iii] are ruled but blank. Catchwords written horizontally. Watermark of a bird (e.g. f. [66]), similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1466-c 1473
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4805
Title:: Diplomatic correspondence and treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire; the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands to France
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [1a]recto (parchment pastedown): A title inscription: '[…] conservant les affaires de Turgaie'. ff. 1*r-103v: Collection of letters and documents, chiefly containing correspondence and treaties between the kings of France and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, written in French, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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