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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3395
Title:: Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as podestà and captain of Koper
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Giovanni Maria Contarini by the Venetian doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545-1553) in 1551. The text concerns Contarini's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the city of Koper, near Trieste (once part of Venetian Is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1551
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3402
Title:: Ovid, Selected works in vernacular Italian
Scope & Content:: Ovid's Heroides and De Pulice in the 14th-century Italian translation by Filippo Ceffi. Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Ovid, Heroides, in vernacular Italian translation, with Preface (f. 1r), begins 'Adcioche tu o lectore abbia apertamente il conoscimento di questo libro...., Heroides (f. 1v) begins '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3403
Title:: Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy. The binding of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1515
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3406
Title:: Collection of sonnets, epistles and canzoni of Niccolò da Correggio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: An index of incipits, organised alphabetically. ff. 9r-191v: Collection of sonnets, epistles and canzoni of Niccolò da Correggio (b. 1450, d. 1508), beginning: '[A]more fortuna e mia natura in parte'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3410
Title:: Petrarch, Rime
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3-145v: Petrarch, Rime. f. 1 is a paper flyleaf; f. 2 is a parchment leaf. Some lines of the sonnets have been inked out (ff. 55r, 69r, and 69v). Decoration: Full white vine border in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch in a medallion, other medallions with geometri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3415
Title:: Ovid, De arte amandi, Italian translation
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: added Italian poem in a 15th century hand. ff. 2r-45v: Ovid, De arte amandi (On the Art of Love), translated into Italian. ff. 45v-51v: Moralising poem. ff. 1r, [1bv] are blank. According to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this manuscr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3435
Title:: Account of the 1623 papal conclave; legal documents concerning taxes
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately. The first part (ff. 1-130) contains an Italian account of the 1623 papal conclave in which Urban VIII was elected. The second part (ff. 131-161r) contains legal documents concerning taxes, dating to 1465-1466. Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1465-1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3442
Title:: Petrarch, Il canzoniere; Trionfi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Il canzoniere (Song book) and Trionfi (Triumphs), two poetry collections by the Italian humanist, scholar, and poet Francesca Petrarca (b. 1304, d. 1374), commonly known as Petrarch. The scribe was responsible for two other Petrarchan manuscripts: Bodleian Library, MSS...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3450
Title:: An atlas of 17 sea 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 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

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