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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 110r-147v
Title:: Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum
Scope & Content:: A collection of lives of philosophers, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum, by Walter Burley (b.1274/5, d. in or after 1344), an English philosopher and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, incipit: 'Thales philosopus asianus ut ait Laertius...' Decoration: Initial in red with pen-flourished d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-1467
Extent:: 38 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 148r-151v
Title:: L. Annaeus Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum
Scope & Content:: L. Annaeus Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum. Decoration: Space left blank for initials; guide letters.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-1467
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 2r-18v
Title:: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius
Scope & Content:: The Elucidarius by Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1080–1137), incipit: 'Sepius rogatus...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 19r-26v
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Liber Penitentialis
Scope & Content:: Liber Penitentialis by Alain de Lille (or Alanus ab Insula) (c. 1128–1203). Rubric: 'Incipit penitenciale secundum magistrum Alanum', incipit: 'A domine deus'. Followed by a rubric 'De confessione' (f. 26r), incipit: 'Trinum deum peccator offendit'; and a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux (Sermo de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 27r-33v
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis
Scope & Content:: An extract from the Summa de vitiis composed by Willelmus Peraldus (d. 1261) in c. 1236. Rubric: 'Incipit capituli in libro de vitiis', incipit: 'Tractatus iste continet ix partes'. The text is preceded by a set of four full-page prefatory images in tinted drawing: f. 27r: A Dominican friar ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 33v-35v
Title:: De sex alis cherubim
Scope & Content:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille) (c. 1128–1203) (?), De sex alis cherubim, rubric: 'De prima ale que dicitur confessio et cuiusdem prima penna que dicitur veritas', incipit: 'Prima ala est'. The earliest manuscript attributions of this text are to Clement of Llanthony (prior of Llanthony and th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 36r-71v
Title:: Bestiary
Scope & Content:: Bestiary. Rubric: 'Incipit liber de natura bestiarum', incipit: 'Leo fortissimus bestiarum'. Decoration: The text is illustrated by 136 framed tinted drawings of animals in colours: Lion (f. 36r); Tiger (f. 36v); Leopard; Panther (f. 37r); Antelope; Unicorn (f. 38r); Lynx; Griffin (f. 38v); El...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 36 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 72r-86r
Title:: Collection of exempla
Scope & Content:: Collection of exempla. Rubric: 'Incipiunt narrationes et exempla quidam edificatoria', incipit: Quidam princeps saracenorum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 87r-121r
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis
Scope & Content:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis, begins imperfectly: '...gaudium nostrum in hac valle lacrimarum'; explicit: 'Explicit summa de vitiis septem et eorum speciebus multimodum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 34 folios.

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