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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 60r-62v
Title:: (Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
Scope & Content:: This copy includes only the first four chapters of the text according to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric 'De cervo', incipit: 'Cornu cervi habet virtutes ad omnes humores excitandos / in colliriis oculorum utuntur', explicit [rubric f. 62 'Ad oscidinem] (f. 62v): 'Caprie sevum ad fissuras l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, ff 62v-67v
Title:: Medical miscellaneous texts
Scope & Content:: 1. Phitotherapic compilation (ff. 62v-64v); Rubric 'Incipit de nominibus herbarum', incipit: 'Hec sunt nomina herbarum. Rosa semen eius anetha. floribus et semine utimur. Viola. floribus in confectionibus / foliis in unguentis utimur', explicit: 'Diptamnum similis est sinano, sed non facit folia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5295
Title:: Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with interlace and white vine decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 4v (with purple pen-flourishing), 44r, 46r, 107r, 110r). C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5296
Title:: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-100: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. It seems that the text was left unfinished in the 12th century (interrupted in the middle of Book 11) and only completed in the late 15th century in a humanistic hand trying to imitate the earlier script (ff. 86v-100). Numerous added ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5298
Title:: Form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in Latin, French and Spanish
Scope & Content:: Manuscript form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in three languages, with printed initials (rubricated and painted in gold leaf), ornaments and heraldic devices (ff. 2v, 11v, 17r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5300
Title:: Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62). The manuscript was perhaps made at the same workshop and by the same scribe as Harley MS 4856, which contains a copy of Vi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5302
Title:: ‘Disputatio de Gratia Sufficiente’
Scope & Content:: Manuscript disputation on sufficient grace, in Latin. Flyleaf dated ‘5 Septembris 1720’, date of acquisition by Harley of the Séguier collection, through Andrew Hay.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5303
Title:: Horace, Carmina; Epistulae; Sermones; Ars Poetica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), also known as Horace. Contents: ff. 1r-56v: Horace, Carmina; ff. 57r-84r: Horace, Epistulae; ff. 84r-121v: Horace, Sermones; ff. 122r-130r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 130v is blank....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5304
Title:: Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Vita Terentii (Life of Terence), beginning, 'Revertente autem Scipione romam devucta Cartagine'. ff. 2r-135r: Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments, including: ff. 1r-26r: Andria (The Girl from Andros). ff. 26r-50r: Eunuchus. ff. 50v-74v: Heauton Timorum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5305
Title:: Benedictional
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum. ff, 26v-33v: Consecratio olei. ff. 34r-49: Consecrationes et ordinationes electi in episcopatum'. Musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 36r, 38v, 39r-v, 41v-42r, 44v, 45v). Decoration: Small miniature in colours and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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