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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5729, ff 16-33v
Title:: Letters to Elias Meniates, dated 1689-1713. Copies. Greek and Italian.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern and Italian
Date Range:: 1689-1717
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5780
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Latin, with a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), rubrics, and prayers in French. Additional prayers and liturgical notes added in the 16th century (ff. 40v, 62v, 109r-v). Two late 15th century Italian leaves with a Latin prayer to the Virgin Mary were added at a later date (ff. 6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420-c 1430
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5866
Title:: Coats of arms of Irish nobility and gentry
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A list of ‘The names of the governors, Lieutenants, Lord iustices and Deputies of Ireland, since the conquest thereof by King Henrie the second’; ending in 1541. f. 2r: A list of ‘The names of all the Lords Deputies and Justices in Ireland, since the deathe of King Henrie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6307, ff i, ii
Title:: Dante, Inferno i.1-72 and xi.64-xii.8. Italian. Two leaves reconstructed from binding fragments.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6455
Title:: Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano (printed book, 1531)
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains printed and handwritten texts relating to Italian poetry. Contents: ff. 2r-17r: A printed book with a decorated frontispiece: 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso - Con Privilegio'; printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562. ff. 18...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1531-c 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6511
Title:: 'Nota sex tantum casus', a treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-50v: 'Nota sex tantum casus', a Latin treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae. The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 1r-1v: An exposition on the mass, beginning 'Missa ideo [sic] vocatur quia missa est pro nobis hostia ad deum placa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6514
Title:: Humanist letters; Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia (imperfect); Latin dictionary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-9v: A collection of letters by Heliseus Barbii, Petrus Berardesci, Petrus Collensis, Camillus Lutii, and others. ff. 10r-13v: Letters by Johannes Gabrielles and others [Latin and Italian]. ff. 14r-23v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, imperfect. f. 24v: Leonardo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6660
Title:: Commentary on the Book of Revelation, chapters 12-13
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Revelation in English, dedicated to William Cecil (b. 1520/1521, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, and perhaps given to him on his anniversary or appointment as Lord High Treasurer in 1572. Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Commentary on the Book of Revelat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Syriac, Classical, and Welsh
Date Range:: 1572
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6753
Title:: Description of the city of Tivoli by Pirro Ligorio
Scope & Content:: Folio manuscript volume, titled 'All Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Sr. Hippolito Cardenali Amplissimo de Ferrara [Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este of Ferrara]. Descrizione della Città de Tivoli Di Pirro Ligorio'. Pirro Ligorio was a painter, architect and antiquarian who was employed by Cardinal I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6794/1
Title:: Collection of diplomatic reports
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12r: description of the fortress of Malta, Italian. ff. 13r-14v: fragment of liturgical manuscript, 2nd half of the 14th century, Latin. f. 15r: epigrams of Sir Thomas Conyngesby (1550-1625). ff. 16r-66r: report on the kingdom of Naples from the Venetian ambassador Aluigi La...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Italian
Date Range:: Late 16th century to 1676
Extent:: 1 volume

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