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2501. Harley MS 3398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3398
Title:
Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum, and Apophthegmata Laconica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-45r: Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum; translated from Greek into Latin by Francesco Filelfo in 1437, with his prefatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (ff. 2r-3v). ff. 46r-84v: Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica; translated from Greek into Latin by Frances...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2502. Harley MS 3399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3399
Title:
Pseudo-Aristotle, Oeconomica, with the Commentary by Leonardo Aretino
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-11v: Pseudo-Aristotle, Economica, translated by Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino), with a preface dedicated to Cosimo 'Il Vecchio' de' Medici, priore of Florence, rubric (preface): 'Leonardi Aretini prefatio in librum economicorum ad Cosmam Medicem,' incipit (preface): 'Pretiosa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1450
Extent:
Parchment codex.

2503. Harley MS 3403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3403
Title:
Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy. The binding of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1515
Extent:
1 volume

2504. Harley MS 3404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3404
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale puerorum, with commentary by Jonas Suessionensis
Scope & Content:
One of the most popular medieval grammatical manuals of the Middle Ages was the Doctrinale puerorum written in verses by Alexandre of Villedieu in the 13th century, and commented on by several medieval authors. This 14th-century copy contains the Doctrinale with commentaries by the early-14th-ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2505. Harley MS 3405

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3405
Title:
Statutes of the Norwegian Church; leaf from an Antiphoner with Anglo-Saxon neumes; collection of swan-marks
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript made up of fragments of different date and origin bound at the beginning of the 16th century. The first part was written in England in the 2nd half of the 12th century (after 1164). The second part was written in Winchester in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2506. Harley MS 3407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3407
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical Texts and Recipes; late 12th cent. - 15th cent. Latin, Middle English and French. Copies. Many codicological units imperfect. A composite and miscellaneous volume including a proto-ensemble of the so-called Trotula texts (art. 1, ff. 1-19), and excerpts from Kyrannides...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1160-1499
Extent:
1 item

2507. Harley MS 3413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3413
Title:
Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:
Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics), in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino) (ff. 5r-109v), with a preface (ff. 1r-4v), and a table of contents (ff. 110r-123v); rubric (preface): 'Leonardus Aretinus civis florentinus', incipit (preface): 'Aristotelis ethicorum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

2508. Harley MS 3414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3414
Title:
Theophrastus, De historia plantarum.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Theophrastus, De historia plantarum translated by Theodore Gaza of Thessaloniki, with the preface dedicated to Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455) for whom Theodore translated the Greek text into Latin (ff. 2r-4v). Decoration: Large initials in red with red pen-flourishing. Large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
216 folios.

2509. Harley MS 3416

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3416
Title:
Henry of Bratton (Bracton), De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-208v: Henry of Bratton (Bracton), De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ (On the Laws and Customs of England), in five books, imperfect at the beginning (wanting 12 leaves), and with a mutilated table of contents at the end. Decoration: 1 very large puzzle initial in blue and g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2510. Harley MS 3422

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3422
Title:
Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ, in five books
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-227r: Henry of Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ, in five books, imperfect. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 227v: Latin notes; added in the 14th century. Decoration: 1 very large puzzle initial in blue and gold with a partial bar border in red, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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