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5381. Harley MS 3571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3571
Title:
A Life of the Virgin Mary and Christ, in Italian
Scope & Content:
This manuscript features an Italian text that can be described as a vita of the Virgin Mary and Christ, although it also highlights the role of St Joseph after Christ's death. The narrative starts with the Virgin's birth and childhood and ends with her assumption into heaven. Perhaps another ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

5382. Harley MS 3573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3573
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. Decoration: A drawing of a human face in the lower margin of f. 12r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5383. Harley MS 3576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3576
Title:
Account of the families in Messina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 27r-228v: Account of the families in Messina; according to Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 43, the manuscript is entitled: 'Il Libro Famiglie degli de Messine'. This title was probably legible on the manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5384. Harley MS 3577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3577
Title:
Anthology of Italian verse treatises
Scope & Content:
Two volumes of Italian verse treatises, one from the 16th and the other from the 15th century, which were bound together in the 18th century. Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Francesco Maria Molza (b. 1489, d. 1544), La Ficheide with commentary by Annibale Caro (b. 1507, d. 1566). ff. 82r-136v: Relation...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1481-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5385. Harley MS 3580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3580
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: Title inscriptions: '1557 Ovidio Methamorphoeos vulgare'; added in the 16th century. f. 1*recto: A Latin poem: 'Cur non omnes hunc Scrip. Libellum'; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5386. Harley MS 3581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3581
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Commedia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-226v: Dante Alighieri, Commedia:Inferno (ff. 2r-80v), Purgatorio (ff. 81v-152v); Paradiso (ff. 153r-226v). f. 226v: Colophon by Geri di Gherardo Risaliti, followed by two lines in Latin, and the Latin epitaph written by Bernardo Canaccio in 1366: 'Iura monarchiae superos Phleg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1464
Extent:
1 volume

5387. 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

5388. 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.

5389. 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.

5390. Harley MS 3814 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3814 B
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the second volume of two. The first volume is now Harley MS 3814 A. A prayer book in Latin with rubrics in Italian. Includes: Seven Penitential Psalms with litanies (ff. 1r-20v), prayers to various saints (ff. 21r-69r), devotional texts on ten commandments, seven deadly sins...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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