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111. Harley MS 3993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3993
Title:
Marco Girolamo Vida, De Bombyce; letters and poems of Antonio Beccadelli
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Marco Girolamo Vida (b. ? 1485, d. 1566), Bishop of Cremona, 'De Bombyce' [ad Isabellam Estensem Marchionissam Mantuae] from his De arte poetica (first published in 1527), entitled: 'Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonen: Canonici Regularis de Bombyce Libri Duo'; beginning: 'Dii ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1527-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

112. Harley MS 4079

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4079
Title:
Horace, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, and Epistolarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-73r: Horace, Odes. ff. 73r-86v: Horace, Epodes. ff. 86v-87v: Horace, Carmen Saeculare. ff. 88r-98v: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 98v: A title from Marcus Terentius Varro's Menippean Satires: 'Nescis quid vehat vesper'. f. 98v: Virgil, Moretum; imperfect. ff. 100r-129r: Hor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

113. Harley MS 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4150
Title:
Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

114. Harley MS 4165

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4165
Title:
Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus; imperfect at the beginning due to missing folios, now opening with the line: 'quandoquidem amantes ut fui invicem fruantur contubernio studiose molitur'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [70e]recto: A single inscription: 'Busara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

115. Harley MS 4169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4169
Title:
Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Paradoxica stoicorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of three treatises by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): De Senectute (On Old Age), De Amicitia (On Friendship), and Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). The manuscript features added marginal annotations in Latin and Greek. Content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

116. Harley MS 4230

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4230
Title:
Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1591-1600
Extent:
1 volume

117. Harley MS 4352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4352
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini. ff. 39v-64r: Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis. ff. 65r-72v: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo. Decoration: Numerous large and smaller initials in gold with red out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

118. Harley MS 4737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4737
Title:
Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-56v: Formularius Instrumentorum; formulary for legal processes in four books (one of which is missing), beginning: 'De principio et forma instrumentorum'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r (lower margin): A practice alphabet; added in the later Middle Ages. f. 1r (parchm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1225-c 1275
Extent:
1 volume

119. Harley MS 4743

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4743
Title:
Gasparo Contarini, De republica Venetorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-97r: Gasparo Contarini (b. 1483, d. 1542), De republica Venetorum, beginning: 'Non ita tamen continuum est'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

120. Harley MS 4790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4790
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore and De Claris Oratoribus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Cicero, De Oratore (On the Orator); ff. 52r-120v: Cicero, De Claris Oratoribus (On Famous Orators). Decoration: An effaced coat of arms on a gold ground in the lower margin (f. 1r). 2 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 52r). Incipits and explicits...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume