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11. Harley MS 2518

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2518
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with a gloss at the start of the text. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 29r-31r: Erased text; perhaps a palimpsest. f. 31v: Added inscriptions in various hands including one on a scroll reading 'amore me port...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2563
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Terence's epitaph. ff. 1r-170v: Terence, Comoediae; with marginal annotations throughout. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 2*, 167v, 168v-170r: Numerous annotations in various hands, some in Italian, mainly late 15th-century-early 16th century. Decoration: C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Harley MS 2581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2581
Title:
Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus], Ars poetica. ff. 10r-52v: Horace, Satires. ff. 53r-83v: Horace, Epistulae. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1*recto: An Italian inscription: 'Se questo libro asorta si p[re]dessi a ?dapitassi allemane di p[er]sona che no[n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Harley MS 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2920
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

15. Harley MS 3077

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3077
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, Liber exhortationis ad quemdam comitem and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo-Augustine, De vita Christiana, beginning: 'Et ego peccator et ultimus insipientior que ceteris'. ff. 9r-11v: Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, beginning: 'Ante omnia interrogandus est qui negat hominem sine peccato esse posse' ff. 11v-12v: Jerome, Tracta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

16. Harley MS 3223

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3223
Title:
Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-123v: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 2v: An Italian inscription, beginning: 'Se hai amicizi con alcuno, & aviene che cada in tentazione di fornicazione, porgeli la mano, e non l'abbando'; added in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1478
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 3238

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3238
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

18. Harley MS 3264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3264
Title:
Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Harley MS 3282

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3282
Title:
Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

20. Harley MS 3387

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3387
Title:
El libro di perfecta penitentia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Italian treatise on penance, beginning: 'In nomine domini. Amen. In comincia una operetta intitulata el libro di perfecta penitentia'. Decoration: Large and small plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume