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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3474
Title:: Coats of arms of the Holy Roman Empire, European kingdoms, and non-European kingdoms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-64r: Coats of arms of the Holy Roman Empire; 'Septem viri sive Electores Imperij institute circiter annum Salutis 1000'; 'Quatuor Imperij Duces'; 'Quatuor Marchiones imperij'; 'Quatuor Imperij Burgravij'; 'Quatuor Imperij Landgravij'; 'Quatuor Imperij Comites'; 'Quatuor Imperij...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3475
Title:: Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia dedicated to Augustino Maffei (b. 1431, d. 1496), Apostolic scriptor and curial official, humanist collector of books and antiquities by the author Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Italian humanist (b. 1421,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1462-c 1466
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3477
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-2r: table of contents. ff. 3r-210v: Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond. f. 1r is a former pastedown. f. 2v is blank. Decoration: Vertical catchwords with penwork decoration. Ruled in hardpoint. The decoration is in the st...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3480
Title:: Catherine of Siena, Lettere
Scope & Content:: Contents: 86 letters of Catherine of Siena,preceded by a titulus: ''Incipiunt epistole gloriose virginis beatissime k[a]terine desenis recollecte per reverendum in christo p[at]rem do[mi]num stephanum de senis priore[m] monasterii sancte Marie de gratiis p[...]pe papiam ordinis cartuse. Questo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3481
Title:: Plato, Select works in the Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino
Scope & Content:: A deluxe copy of Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation of Plato's select dialogues< copied for Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples. Contents: f. 1: A parchment flyleaf. f. 2r: Naldus, Naldius (b. 1439, d. 1513), Epigram on Plato, begins 'Cum Deus aethereis hunc mittere vellet...'. ff. 2v-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1491-1493
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3482
Title:: Marsilio Ficino, Theologica Platonica
Scope & Content:: A deluxe copy of Ficino's Theologica Platonica copied from a printed edition by Petrus Hippolytus Lunensis for Ferdinand I of Aragon, King of Naples. The manuscript is the second part of a set of Ficino's works of which Harley MS 3481 is the first volume. Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1491-1493
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3483
Title:: Pseudo-Joachim, Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Pseudo-Joachim, Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, in Italian. ff. 65r-65v: Giudicio e Dichiaratione della Ruota Soggionta, in Italian. ff. 66r-67r: Dichiaratione dell'oracolo turchesco, in Italian. Decoration: 35 full-page monochrome illustrations of the content of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1589
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3485
Title:: Plutarch, Parallel Lives
Scope & Content:: This 15th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, written by the Greek philosopher and writer Plutarch (b. 46, d. after 119). The biographies are arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1478
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3486
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487
Title:: Aristotle, Libri naturales
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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