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91. 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

92. 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

93. Harley MS 3520/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3520/1
Title:
Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions
Scope & Content:
The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts. Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

94. Harley MS 3530

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3530
Title:
Collection of excerpts from St Jerome; Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia; Pope Pius II, De Roma; Pulcra dicta sanctorum; De consolatione et timoris penitentie; 'Master Frater Antonio', Sono li Dodeci Articuli de la fede nostra; Sono li Dieci Commandamenti de la lege Christiana Dati da Dio a Moises in suse el Monte Sinay; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola sancti Bernardi ad Raymundum militem de re familiari gubernanda; Peter Damian, De gloria paradisi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-83v: A collection of excerpts from various works of St Jerome, preceded by a table of contents; also including a letter on the death of Jerome attributed to Eusebius of Cremona; and the Life of St Malchus of Syria by Jerome. f. 83v: Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1463
Extent:

1 volume

95. Harley MS 3531

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3531
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Corbaccio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Boccaccio's Corbaccio (The Crow), written around April 1448, from a copy written by Boccaccio. Contents: ff. 2r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Corbaccio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:
A paper codex

96. Harley MS 3545

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3545
Title:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-3v: List of chapters of the Legenda Aurea. ff. 4r-373v: Jacobus de Voragine [Varagine], Legenda Aurea. The manuscript contains a few other items: f. 1v: Offset of another unidentified Latin text. f. 1v: Note in Latin, partially legible, referring to 'in legenda sancti Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

97. Harley MS 3566

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3566
Title:
Italian translation of Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerario por las regiones subequinocciales; João Bermudes, description of Ethiopia; Life of Prospero Publicola Santacroce; history of the Confraternita della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-3*verso: Index to Alessandro Geraldini's Itinerario por las regiones subequinocciales. ff. 4*recto-4*verso: Introduction by 'Il Cavalier Pompeo Mongallo da Lionessa della militia di Giesu Chr[ist]o'. ff. 1r-77v: Italian translation of Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerario por...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

98. Harley MS 3580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3580
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: Title inscriptions: '1557 Ovidio Methamorphoeos vulgare'; added in the 16th century. f. 1*recto: A Latin poem: 'Cur non omnes hunc Scrip. Libellum'; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

99. Harley MS 3582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3582
Title:
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Poetria nova (New poetry), an influential Latin textbook written in hexameter verse, which gives advice to future writers about the composition of poetry. The text is attributed to the Anglo-Norman poet Gualterus Anglicus (fl. 1175), but was in fact written by the gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

100. Harley MS 3653

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3653
Title:
Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: The Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 65r-66r: Notes in multiple (?) 15th-century hands, including inscriptions in Italian ('pieruccino presto […]'). f. 65v: Short texts, beginning: 'Hic est martir chananeus'; 'Et Chr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1100 - c 1175
Extent:
1 volume