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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 1r-41r
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and black ink with penwork decoration, and smaller initials in red, some with penwork decoration; quide letters next to initials. Paraphs in red and first letters of verses highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-1440
Extent:: 41 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 42r-73v
Title:: Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi
Scope & Content:: Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi, book 2, Megacosmos, in prose and verse. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in black and red ink, at the beginning of the text (f. 42r). Smaller initials in red, some with guide letters; paraphs in red; and first letters of verses highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-1440
Extent:: 32 folios; preceded by 1 unfoliated blank folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3234, ff 74r-109v
Title:: P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto
Scope & Content:: P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto. The title in the manuscript reads 'Ovidius de ponto'. Decoration: Initial in red with penwork decoration in red, at the beginning of the text, and smaller initials in red throughout the text. First letters of verses highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-1440
Extent:: 36 folios.

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 3235
Title:: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew; Sunday sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-135v: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew; space left blank on f. 76v but no text missing. ff. 135v-147v: An alphabetical index for Pseudo-John Chrysostom's Homilies on Matthew. ff. 148r-206v: A collection of Sunday sermons, the first one entitled: 'Sermo dominica pri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3236
Title:: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew; Nicholas Trevet [Trivet], Commentary on Boethius’s De Consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-147v: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew, entitled: 'Incipiunt omelie sancti iohannis crisostomi super Matheum quod dicitur opus inperfectum et sunt omelie .54.'. ff. 148r-174v: A table of contents for Pseudo-John Chrystostom's homilies. ff. 175r-272r: Nicholas Tre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3237
Title:: St Jerome, Epistles
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a collection of St Jerome's letters. The second volume is Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. This volume contains items 1-51 of the 117 items listed at the end of Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. Contents: ff. 1r-106v: St Jerome, Epistles. The manuscript contains a few later addition...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3238
Title:: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3239
Title:: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae; commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council; Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis; Gerard van Vliederhoven, Cordiale quatuor novissimorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-102v: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (here attributed to Thomas Aquinas), Compendium theologiae (Compendium theologicae veritatis). ff. 103r-175v: Commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council, beginning with Konrad von Soltau's Lectura super Firmiter credimus: 'Firmiter credimus et ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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