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141. Harley MS 3390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3390
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, translated into Italian by Dante Popoleschi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of an Italian translation of Suetonius' De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), made by Dante Popoleschi (fl. 2nd decade of the 16th century). The text is supplemented with a glossary, containing definitions of classical terms. The work is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century (between 1515 and 1547)
Extent:
1 volume

142. Harley MS 3938

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3938
Title:
Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers; Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis; moral poems; Odo of Cheriton, Parabolae; exempla
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title page ‘Philosoph[orum] Vita ac Gesta’. ff. 1r-78v: Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers, organized chronologically. ff. 80r-107v: Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis. f. 108r: Latin verses, two of which are derived from Ovid, Ars Amatoria. f. 108v-109r: 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

143. Harley MS 296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

144. Harley MS 3282

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3282
Title:
Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

145. Harley MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 280
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

146. Harley MS 3949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3949
Title:
Collection of Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript, the first part of which (ff. 1-71) contains a humanistic miscellany comprising Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts, the second (ff. 72-103) preserves humanist Latin translations of Greek works relating to Classical education. Contents: ff. 1r-69v: written by Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1430-1455
Extent:
1 volume

147. Harley MS 3530

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3530
Title:
Collection of excerpts from St Jerome; Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia; Pope Pius II, De Roma; Pulcra dicta sanctorum; De consolatione et timoris penitentie; 'Master Frater Antonio', Sono li Dodeci Articuli de la fede nostra; Sono li Dieci Commandamenti de la lege Christiana Dati da Dio a Moises in suse el Monte Sinay; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola sancti Bernardi ad Raymundum militem de re familiari gubernanda; Peter Damian, De gloria paradisi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-83v: A collection of excerpts from various works of St Jerome, preceded by a table of contents; also including a letter on the death of Jerome attributed to Eusebius of Cremona; and the Life of St Malchus of Syria by Jerome. f. 83v: Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1463
Extent:

1 volume

148. Harley MS 7009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7009
Title:
Miscellaneous papers addressed to Prince Henry, 1610-1612
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous petitions, proposals and projects addressed to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 3 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Brief list of the yearly pensions paid by Prince Henry. With notes of some occasional expenses. 1610-1612. ff. 3r-4v: Record of several petiti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1610-1612
Extent:
1 volume

149. Harley MS 6987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6987
Title:
Royal letters and warrants, 1621-1624
Scope & Content:
Royal letters and warrants, from the end of the reign of King James VI and I, 1621-1624. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King James VI and I to Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer. Sending a reminder to furnish George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, with 10,000 l. for his wife’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1621-1624
Extent:
1 volume

150. Harley MS 1582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

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