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5121. Harley MS 4857

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4857
Title:
Petrarch, Rime and Trionfi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-6*r: Table of first lines. f. 1*: Added pasted on inscribed piece of parchment. ff. 1r-142v: Petrarch, Rime. ff. 143r-179v: Petrarch, Trionfi. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border inhabited by animals and putti, with 1 large initial in colours and gold and a coat of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5122. Harley MS 5020

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5020
Title:
A history of Venice from the year 695 to 1478
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-225r: A history of Venice from the year 695 to 1478; with an account of the origins of the city's families. f. 226v: Additions to the history of Venice for the year 1577.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1577
Extent:
1 volume

5123. Harley MS 5139

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5139
Title:
Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus Pauperum, in an anonymous Italian translation; alchemical and medical recipes; fragment of the Livre de Sydrac
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous Italian translation of the Thesaurus pauperum (Treasury of the poor), a comprehensive medical manual of diseases and remedies by Petrus Hispanus (or Peter of Spain), traditionally identified with the Portuguese scholar and ecclesiastic Peter Juliani (b. c. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5124. Harley MS 5205

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5205
Title:
Lucidarium Philosophi eximii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii, a tract on divinity in the form of a dialogue between a master and his scholar. Decoration: Initials in red with red penwork decoration. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5125. Harley MS 5255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5255
Title:
Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1467
Extent:

1 volume

5126. Harley MS 5347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5347
Title:
Vita of St Margaret of Antioch
Scope & Content:
A verse Life of St Margaret of Antioch that the introduction attributes to a Theotimus, supposedly a witness to her martyrdom. Contents: ff. 1r-54r: life of St Margaret of Antioch. ff. 55r-56r: prayer to the Virgin Mary. f. 56v: incomplete inscription remarking on St Margaret’s legend: ‘Seg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5127. Harley MS 5355

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5355
Title:
Papal letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Letters by Pope Clement VII, Paul III and Julius III; ‘Litterae Civitatis Neopolitan.’; several signed by ‘Blosius’, the latest dated to 1541. ff. 40r-43r: An index for the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5128. Harley MS 5381

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5381
Title:
Enea Vico da Parma, Coins of the Twelve Caesars
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Enea Vico da Parma (b. 1523, d. 1567), drawings of coins (12 per page) of Roman Emperors [The Twelve Caesars], organised according to emperor; each emperor has his own frontispiece. Decoration: Original drawings in black ink used for engravings in Vico’s Le imagini con t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

5129. Harley MS 5423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5423
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5130. Harley MS 5427

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

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