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1. Add MS 47683

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 47683
Title:
Detached leaf from a giant Bible
Scope & Content:
This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

2. 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

3. Harley MS 631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 631
Title:
Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis; Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis; Johannis de Parisine, De Regia et Papali Potestate; Conrad of Gelnhausen, Epistola Concordie; Peter of Ancarano, Compilation for solving the Papal Schism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 39r: Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis inter orthodoxum catholicum et cathecuminum Paucascium inquirentem de reformacione ecclesie militante. ff. 41r-170v: Marsilius of Padua (b. c. 1275, d. 1342), Defensor pacis. ff. 172r-200r: ‘Magister Johannes de Parisine de ordi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1400s
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 1347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1347
Title:
Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu sancto
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-205v: Diogenes Laertius (fl. ? 3rd century), Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, trans. by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439), theologian and friend of Nicholas of Cusa, for Cosimo de' Medici (b. 1389, d. 1464). ff. 206r-275r: Gregory of Nazianzus (b. 330, d. 390), Oration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A paper codex

5. Harley MS 1702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1702
Title:
Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-178r: Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1816
Title:
Consultatio de Calice Laycis porrigendo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: 'Consultatio de Calice Laycis porrigendo'; Book V, Chapters 1-11 of Diego Laynez (b. 1512, d. 1565), Disputationes Tridentinae.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1865
Title:
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourished decoration in red, some in form of birds or creatures (ff. 1r, 8v, 13v, 25r, 36r, 46r, 56r). Two initials in blue with penwork decoration in red (f. 1r). Rubrics in r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 1869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1869
Title:
Giustificazione dei veneziani per la pace fatta col turco
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is bound together with Harley MS 1870, Harley MS 1871, Harley MS 1872, Harley MS 1873, Harley MS 1874. Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 90r-91v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-century breviary, used as flyleaves in this manuscript and related to those in Harley MS 1870, ff. 37-38, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MSS 1869-1874 (bound together as 1 volume)

9. Harley MS 1870

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1870
Title:
Risposta alle Giustificazioni della Serenissima Signoria di Venezia per la pace fatta col turco
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is bound together with Harley MS 1869, Harley MS 1871, Harley MS 1872, Harley MS 1873, Harley MS 1874. Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Risposta alle Giustificazioni della Serenissima Signoria di Venezia per la pace fatta col turco. ff. 37r-38v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MSS 1869-1874 (bound together as 1 volume)

10. Harley MS 1872

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1872
Title:
Relatione dello stati, nel quale si ritruova il Governo dell'Imperio Turchesco quest'anno 1594 et della causa perch'egli habbia volto l'armi al presente nelle parti di Ungaria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Relatione dello stati, nel quale si ritruova il Governo dell'Imperio Turchesco quest'anno 1594 et della causa perch'egli habbia volto l'armi al presente nelle parti di Ungaria. ff. 36r-37v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-century breviary, used as flyleaves in this ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1594
Extent:
1 volume