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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3443
Title:: Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jugurthine War
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline. ff. 20v-54v: Sallust, The Jugurthine War, ending with the colophon: 'Laus tibi sit Christe qui liber explicit iste amen'; and the poem: 'Qui cupit ignotum Jugurte noscere letum / Tarpeie rupis pulsus ad ima ruit / Historie scriptor ne...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3444
Title:: Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: July 1553-July 1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3445
Title:: Gregory of Nazianzus, Apologeticus; Sermones
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a number of theological works written by the theologian and archbishop of Constantinople Gregory of Nazianzus (b. c. 329, d. 390), in a Latin translation from the Greek, attributed to the monk and historian Rufinus of Aquileia (b. 344/45, d. 411). According to the colo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1448
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3447
Title:: Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg, Compendium theologicae veritatis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-135v: Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg (b. 1210, d. 1268), Compendium theologicae veritatis or Compendium theologiae [Compendium of Theological Truths]; with an alphabetical index (ff. 128r-135v); written in seven books that are entitled: 1. De natura divinitatis; 2. De creaturis; 3....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3450
Title:: An atlas of 17 sea charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:: This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3452/1
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-237v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae (Ecclesiastical History), translated by Rufinus of Aquileia, imperfect, missing f. 1 (bound separately as Harley MS 3452/2). Decoration: 10 large white vine initials in colours and gold inhabited by birds, including a hoopo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3452/2
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: Preface to Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae (Ecclesiastical History), translated by Rufinus of Aquileia, imperfect, and partial table of contents for bk 1, missing ff. 2-237 (bound separately as Harley MS 3452/1). Decoration: Damaged white vine border in colo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3454
Title:: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Opuscula
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Opuscula. Decoration: Border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours, with pen-flourishing in brown ink, a coat of arms in the lower margin, and a large historiated initial in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch seated (f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1398
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3462
Title:: Letters and historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-245r: Letters and historical texts in Latin and Italian; for an item description see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, III (1808), pp. 28-29.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1506-1515
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3469
Title:: Splendor Solis
Scope & Content:: Content: The manuscript contains the alchemical treatise Splendor Solis. Decoration: 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold with full borders. Very large calligraphic initials in gold. Capitals marked in gold. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 2r: The A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

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