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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 181v-182v
Title:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis
Scope & Content:: Johannes Paulinus, De corio serpentis. Rubric 'Incipiunt ii experimenta de corio serpentis / translata a Johanne Paulino', incipit: 'Cum ego Johannes Paulinus essem in / Alexandriam civitatem egyptiorum / reperi', explicit: 'Expliciunt 12 experimenta / extratta de libro Alcani qui salus vite voc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2378, ff 182v-183r
Title:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis
Scope & Content:: Ludi nature regis Salomonis. Title (f. 182v) 'Incipiunt ludi nature regis Salomonis quos / (f. 183r) misit regine', incipit (f. 183r): 'Ad faciendam aquam comburentem'. Another copy is Sloane MS 121 (ff. 90v-92r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 12r-35v
Title:: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
Scope & Content:: ff. 12r-31v: Richard Rolle, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, incipit: 'Pater noster qui est in celis etc hec oratio privilegiata'. ff. 31v-33v: Added rubric: 'Glosa Richardi de hampris heremite in oracione domenice..', incipit: 'Sequitur quedam brevis exposicio oracionis dominice.' ff. 33v-34v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 15th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2406, ff 36r-85r
Title:: Colletion of devotional texts
Scope & Content:: ff. 36r-57v: Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae, incipit: 'Tary yu noucht for to curue to Gode.' ff. 58r-60v: Exposition of a lost Latin epistle of Walter Hilton 'Noviter militanti nova congruit milicia', incipit: 'Mi dere frende it is tolde yat yhe desire yat I schulde expone to yhu ye letter of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 50 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 1r-28v
Title:: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio, incipit: 'Populus romanus a rege Romulo in Cesarem Augustum septingentos per annos tantum operum pace belloque gessit'. Space left for a rubric. Decoration: Large initial 'P' in blue with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text. Initial in r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 29r-49v
Title:: Orosius, Historia adversus paganos
Scope & Content:: Orosius, Historia adversus paganos, rubric: 'Pauli horosii presbiteri historiarum de hormesta mundi adversus paganos liber septimus incipit', incipit: ‘Sufficientia ut arbitor documenta collecta sunt'. Decoration: Large initial 'S' in blue with red pen-flourishing with an extension forming a p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 21 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 50r-116r
Title:: A chronicle of emperors and popes
Scope & Content:: A chronicle of emperors and popes from the creation of the world to the reign of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (b. 1122, d. 1190); preceded by a table of contents, rubric: 'Tabula historiarum sub cronicis et cathalogo omnium regum et pontificum' (ff. 50r-55v); rubric: 'Incipit liber historiarum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 67 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 117r-129v
Title:: Poggio Bracciolini, De infelicitate principum
Scope & Content:: Poggio Bracciolini, De infelicitate principum, title: 'Pogii florentini oratoris eloquentissimi ac secretarii apostolici de infelicitate principum libellus', incipit: 'Cum ex mea consuetudine quaprimum estate pontifex Eugenius'. Decoration: Space left for initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 18 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 129v-138r
Title:: Poggio Bracciolini, De acerbitate fortunae
Scope & Content:: Poggio Bracciolini, De acerbitate fortunae with a preface, title: 'Eiusdem Pogii de acerbitate fortune prohemium feliciter incipit', incipit (preface): 'Multa quondam pace ac bello preclara ante ninum assyriorum regem', incipit (text): 'Nuper cum pontifex Martinus'. Decoration: Space left for i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2500, ff 139r-155r
Title:: Pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi, title: 'Tractatus turpini remensis archiepiscopi de bello hyspanico missa sancti iacobi apostoli a karolo magno imperatore romanorum triumphaliter confecto', incipit: 'Gloriosissimus apostolus christi iacobus'. Decoration: Initials in red. Capi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 17 folios.

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