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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5427
Title:: Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (Elegy of Lady Fiammetta), a work by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. The text is written in the form of a first-person monologue and details the love of its protagonist the Lady Fiam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5454
Title:: Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1090
Extent:: 1 text, 29 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5631
Title:: Chronicle of Constantinople from Constantine the Great to Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and Ps.-Kodinos, De structura templi S. Sophiae.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 28 Aug 1555
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5670
Title:: Demosthenes, Speeches
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 17 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5729, ff 13-15
Title:: Francisco Meniates, Life of Elias Meniates. Greek. Elias Meniates, Πέτρα Σκανδάλου, Athens 1863, pp.9-13. Followed by (f. 15) a few bibliographical additions in Greek and preceded by (ff. 10-12) an Italian translation of the Life.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern and Italian
Date Range:: 1689-1717
Extent:: 1 item

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