Project / Collection: Harley Collection / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5266
Title:: Euclid, Elements
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Euclid's Elements, translated by Adelard of Bath, with an added table of contents (f. 127r) and a round map of the world (mappa mundi) (f. 128v). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours with a portrait of Euclid (f. 1r). 7 large initials in colours with birds or animals ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5267/2
Title:: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio and De diligendo Dei, and other works
Scope & Content:: This is the second volume of Harley MS 5267. The first volume is Harley MS 5267/1. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Pseudo-Sallust, In M. Tullium Ciceronem invectiva. ff. 7r-83v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae. ff. 84r-101v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio. ff. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5268
Title:: Virgil, Aeneis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-203: Virgil, Aeneis, written by Bartolomeo Sanvito, perhaps for Evangelista Gonzaga (b. before 1440, d. 1492): his erased arms and offset of his initials in capital letters (ff. 1v, 2; see de la Mare and Nuvoloni 2009). ff. 54 and 71 are palimpsests. Decoration: 1 large and 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5269
Title:: Lucan, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Added list of dated events, starting with the year 1408, ending with the year 1423, and mentioning the Sforza. ff. 2-114: Lucan, Pharsalia. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with foliate and knotwork motifs, bezants, and heraldic devices in medallions (f. 2r). 9 in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5270
Title:: Peter Lombard, Libri Quattuor Sententiarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Peter Lombard’s Libri Quattuor Sententiarum. This copy has previously been dated to the 14th century (see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 257), but new analysis of the script and page layout indicates that it was produced in the late 12t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5273
Title:: Book of Job, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-99r: The Book of Job, glossed. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 1r: An English note: ‘This Book belong’d to the Abbey of Rival or Rievaux in the County of York. Which Abbey of Cistertians was founded in the Year 1132. There ys a Book mention’d in Capleys ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5274
Title:: John le Breton, Britton
Scope & Content:: Previously catalogued as 'Vetera Statuta' (Ancient Statutes), this manuscript contains a copy of the Britton, the earliest summary of law in England written in French, and being an updated version of Henry Bracton's mid 13th-century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Laws and Customs of Engl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5275
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Château d'amour
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Robert Grosseteste, Château d'amour [Latin]. Decoration: Blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5279
Title:: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Summary of the Histories of Pompeius Trogus) by the Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus (mid-2nd century to late 4th century), also known as Justin. Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5280
Title:: Collection of Irish historical, mythological and religious texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of Irish texts from the Ulster, Finn and mythological cycles. Also some religious and glossarial material. A detailed catalogue description is provided in O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 298-323. Contents: ff. 1-10 are later inserted paper leaves. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Search