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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3426
Title:: Humanistic miscellany, including select lives from Plutarch's Parallel lives
Scope & Content:: A humanist anthology of classical and patristic Greek authors translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni. Contents: ff. 1r-134v: Select lives from Plutarch, Parallel lives, translated by Leonardo Bruni. ff. 1r-37r: Life of Antonius, with preface. ff. 37r-56v: Life of Pyrrhus. ff. 56v-73r: Lif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3431
Title:: Gospel of Matthew, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-147r: Gospel of Matthew, glossed (ff. 7r-147r), with prologues (ff. 1r-6r). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 8r, 18v, 20r, 21v, and 148r: Contemporary notes in the margins. Decoration: Some initials in red with penwork decoration in blue, occasionally with a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3432
Title:: The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3433
Title:: Verse treatises on natural philosophy entitled De principiis rerum naturalium and De rerum proprietatibus; Raffaello Maffei, Summary of Plato's Leges and Epinomis; Raffaello Maffei, Commentariorum urbanorum octo et triginta libri (extracts)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-43v: The first part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 44r-88v: The second part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'Secunda pars huius tertie pars De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 89r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3435
Title:: Account of the 1623 papal conclave; legal documents concerning taxes
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately. The first part (ff. 1-130) contains an Italian account of the 1623 papal conclave in which Urban VIII was elected. The second part (ff. 131-161r) contains legal documents concerning taxes, dating to 1465-1466. Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1465-1623
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3436
Title:: Theological miscellany including Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi
Scope & Content:: Theological miscellany containing late medieval and early Christian hagiographical texts along with works and letters by Italian humanists. Contents: f. 1r: Inscriptions. f. 1v: Added inscription: 'Nobili domino Ambrosio Spinula d. Stefani'. ff. 2r-44r: Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de mort...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3437
Title:: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3438
Title:: Bible, including the Psalms
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two parts. The larger part appears to have been written around 1225 (written above the top line), but the first quire (ff. 1-5) was probably added in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century (written below the top line and the flourishings include 'J-borders'). Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3439
Title:: Plautus, Commediae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-107r: Plautus, Commediae: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Captivi, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, and Aulularia, which is imperfect at the end. Decoration: Spaces for large decorated initials left empty throughout the manuscript. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3441
Title:: Justinian, Codex
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most import...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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