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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2705
Title:: Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Epitome of the Histories of Pompeius Trogus) by the Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus (fl. 2nd century), also known as Justin. The manuscript's scribe Christoforo Schioppo of Verona was also responsible for Harley...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1454
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2711
Title:: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino; Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva in Franciscum Philelphum; Invectiva II in Franciscum Philelphum; Epistola ad Laurentium Aretinum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Sallust (b. 86, d. c. 35 BC): De coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy) and De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). It also includes two invectives by the Italian scholar and humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1449
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2747
Title:: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-2 and ff. 107-110: Numerous added records in Italian in one hand, mostly relating to accounts, 16th century: sales (of wheat, etc.), lists of purchases, of letters written to various persons, mention of a donation towards the restoration of a church ( 'la donatione di m^a^ Maria...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2771
Title:: Cicero, Orator; De claris oratoribus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): Orator, his last work on rhetoric, written three years before his death, and De claris oratoribus (On famous orators), a history of Roman oratory. The anonymous scribe of the manuscript was also...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1430-c. 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2789
Title:: Bible, Proverbs to Apocalypse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13r: Proverbs, with preface and capitula, imperfect in the middle (Proverbs 25-29 are not included). ff. 13v-17v: Ecclesiastes, with capitula. ff. 18r-20r: Song of Songs. ff. 20r-29r: Wisdom, with capitula. ff. 29r-53r: Sirach, with preface and capitula. ff. 53r-80r: Isa...
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2990
Title:: Ritual, Ambrosian Use
Scope & Content:: Contents: Ritual, Ambrosian (i.e. Milan) Use, including a prayer for the duke of Milan and count of Pavia (ff. 42r-v, 48v) and one for the congregation of St Innocent (f. 48v), imperfect. Additional texts (ff. 1r-4v, 50-52v, 122v-124v) and prayers (in the margins) added by 15th- and 16th-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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