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1. Harley MS 3448

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3448
Title:
Fiore de virtù e de costumi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Fiore de virtù e de costumi (Flower of Virtue and of Manners), an Italian work on virtues and vices that was composed in the early 14th century. It consists of 36 chapters, each of which discusses a particular virtue or vice by drawing a comparison with an animal, cit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 3489

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3489
Title:
An atlas of portolan charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:
This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's seven charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. Contents: ff. [1v-2r]: A map of the two hemispheres (Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 3535

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535
Title:
Veterinary tracts including Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes veterinary tracts relating to horses, written mostly in the Sicilian dialect. Contents as follows: Table of contents (ff. 1r-1v); Lu libru di la maniscalchia, translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (ff. 2r-36r); Notes on veterinary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
156 folios

4. Harley MS 3535, ff 1r-1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535, ff 1r-1v
Title:
Table of contents
Scope & Content:
Table of contents added by a later hand, with an added title 'Libro delle infe[r]mitate delli cavalli' (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
1 folio.

5. Harley MS 3535, ff 2r-36r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535, ff 2r-36r
Title:
Lu libru di la maniscalchia
Scope & Content:
Lu libru di la maniscalchia, the Italian (Sicilian dialect) translation of Giordano Ruffo, De medicina equorum by Johannes de Cruyllis (imperfect at the beginning), incipit: 'Cum zo sia cosa ki intra tuti li animali'. Edition of the text: G. de Gregorio, ‘Il codice de Cruyllis-Spatafora’, Zeits...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
35 folios.

6. Harley MS 3535, ff 37r-39v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535, ff 37r-39v
Title:
Astrological text on humours and the signs of the Zodiac
Scope & Content:
Astrological text on humours and the signs of the Zodiac.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

7. Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3535, ff 40r-156v
Title:
Veterinary tract 'La medicina deli cavali'
Scope & Content:
Veterinary tract in Italian (Sicilian dialect? with some Latin words and terms) entitled here (f. 40r) 'La medicina deli cavali'; Preface incipit (f. 41r): 'Dozarmu alluremi fia crucem + prima et + ingatur ecus passus'; with a table of contents (ff. 41v-43r); incipit (f. 43r): 'Allu nomi dideu i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
117 folios.

8. Harley MS 3736

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

9. Harley MS 3736, ff 1r-80r

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.

10. Harley MS 3736, ff 81r-158v

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.