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2552. Harley MS 3489
- 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
2553. Harley MS 3490
- 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
2554. Harley MS 3491
- 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
2555. Harley MS 3500
- 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
2556. Harley MS 3503
- 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
2557. Harley MS 3504
- 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
2558. Harley MS 3507
- 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
2559. Harley MS 3509
- 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
2560. Harley MS 3510
- 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