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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4857
Title:: Petrarch, Rime and Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-6*r: Table of first lines. f. 1*: Added pasted on inscribed piece of parchment. ff. 1r-142v: Petrarch, Rime. ff. 143r-179v: Petrarch, Trionfi. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border inhabited by animals and putti, with 1 large initial in colours and gold and a coat of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5020
Title:: A history of Venice from the year 695 to 1478
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-225r: A history of Venice from the year 695 to 1478; with an account of the origins of the city's families. f. 226v: Additions to the history of Venice for the year 1577.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1577
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5139
Title:: Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus Pauperum, in an anonymous Italian translation; alchemical and medical recipes; fragment of the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an anonymous Italian translation of the Thesaurus pauperum (Treasury of the poor), a comprehensive medical manual of diseases and remedies by Petrus Hispanus (or Peter of Spain), traditionally identified with the Portuguese scholar and ecclesiastic Peter Juliani (b. c. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5205
Title:: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii, a tract on divinity in the form of a dialogue between a master and his scholar. Decoration: Initials in red with red penwork decoration. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5255
Title:: Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5347
Title:: Vita of St Margaret of Antioch
Scope & Content:: A verse Life of St Margaret of Antioch that the introduction attributes to a Theotimus, supposedly a witness to her martyrdom. Contents: ff. 1r-54r: life of St Margaret of Antioch. ff. 55r-56r: prayer to the Virgin Mary. f. 56v: incomplete inscription remarking on St Margaret’s legend: ‘Seg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5355
Title:: Papal letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Letters by Pope Clement VII, Paul III and Julius III; ‘Litterae Civitatis Neopolitan.’; several signed by ‘Blosius’, the latest dated to 1541. ff. 40r-43r: An index for the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5381
Title:: Enea Vico da Parma, Coins of the Twelve Caesars
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Enea Vico da Parma (b. 1523, d. 1567), drawings of coins (12 per page) of Roman Emperors [The Twelve Caesars], organised according to emperor; each emperor has his own frontispiece. Decoration: Original drawings in black ink used for engravings in Vico’s Le imagini con t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: Includes: A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v); Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r); Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r); 5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin: Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1340
Extent:: 104 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5402, ff 69r-69v
Title:: Added notes
Scope & Content:: Added notes, incipit: 'Anno domini mclx correbas ciclum...' (for the full transcript of this text see Burnett 2000). The notes concern astronomical observation, such as finding the position of the Moon, divinations, etc, but they also contain some instruction for using astronomical tables that...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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