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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4484
Title:: Collection of Latin inscriptions with translations and poems in French
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8r: 'Inscriptions de la Place des Victories, par Regnier des Marais'; Latin inscriptions , dated 1643-1686, with French translations. ff. 9r-14r: 'De Erasmo'; Latin inscriptions on Erasmus with many written at Paris by Jean-Baptiste de Santeul [Santolius] (b. 1630, d. 1697) a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4770
Title:: Statutes of Venice
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: modern table of contents. f. 1*v: short text on women. ff. 1r-40r: Statutes of Venice. ff, 42r-60v: additional statutes down to 1472. ff. [ii]-[iii] are ruled but blank. Catchwords written horizontally. Watermark of a bird (e.g. f. [66]), similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1466-c 1473
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4805
Title:: Diplomatic correspondence and treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire; the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands to France
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [1a]recto (parchment pastedown): A title inscription: '[…] conservant les affaires de Turgaie'. ff. 1*r-103v: Collection of letters and documents, chiefly containing correspondence and treaties between the kings of France and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, written in French, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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