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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 224r-235v
Title:: Nicholas of Damascus, De plantis
Scope & Content:: Nicholas of Damascus, De plantis. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'T'(ria) in colours and gold of a man tilling the soil and another chopping down a tree, at the beginning of the text.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 12 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3489
Title:: An atlas of portolan 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 seven charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. Contents: ff. [1v-2r]: A map of the two hemispheres (Cha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3490
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1444
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3491
Title:: Francesco Patrizi of Siena, De institutione rei politicae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-187v: Franciscus Patricius Senensis (b. 1413, d. 1494), De institutione rei politicae. Decoration: Capitals in alternate red and blue. Running titles in red and blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1512
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3500
Title:: Latin version of the Lead Books of Sacromonte
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Latin translation of the Lead Books of Sacromonte by the Franciscan friar and Arabic specialist Bartolomeus a Pectorano [Bartolomé de Pettorano] (d. 1688) at the Convent of Saint Isidore in Rome in 1644. The Lead Books of Sacromonte are a set of 22 books with lead leav...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1644-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3503
Title:: Excerpts about and from Horace
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-91v: Excerpts about and from Horace, opening with a poem entitled 'Prometheus'. Beginning: 'Audax Iapeti genus'; ending imperfectly in Horace's Odes (Carmina), I, Book 3.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3504
Title:: Nicholas Upton, De officio militari; on the manner and form of keeping of Parliament; tracts on the baptism, coronation and consecration of kings and queens; Liber Armorum; account of the funeral procession of King Henry VII; (?)John Skelton, Verses presented to Henry VII on the feast of St George
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-8v: 'A Table declaringe the Contents of this Booke'. ff. 9r-198r: Nicholas Upton, De officio militari, here entitled: 'Tractatus de Armis Nic: Upton etc'; 'beginning: 'Summum opificem alpha et oo in essentia unum et trinum in personis'; consisting of 4 books entitled: 'De Col...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3507
Title:: A transcription and interlinear Latin translation of the Arabic Lead Books of Granada
Scope & Content:: A transcription and interlinear Latin translation of all the apocryphal Arabic texts found on the so-called Lead Books of Granada by Bartolome de Pettorano. Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Liber fundamentorum fidei Thesiphonis Aben attar discipuli Jacobi Apostoli. ff. 12r-16v: Liber Thesiphonis Abenat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 1644
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3509
Title:: Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3510
Title:: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, Ars Poetica, Sermones, and Epistulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-76v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina (Poems); ff. 76v-85v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry); ff. 85v-127r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Sermones (Satires); ff. 127r-156r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae (Epistles). Decoration: 1 historiated...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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