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71. Harley MS 3238

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3238
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

72. Harley MS 3262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3262
Title:
Proclus, Platonic Theology; Pseudo-Bonaventure, Centiloquium; Bonaventure, De reductione artium ad theologiam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-114v: Proclus, Platonic Theology; translated into Latin by the humanist Pietro Balbi [Petrus Balbus] (b. 1399, d. 1479), of Pisa. ff. 115r-161v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, Centiloquium. ff. 162r-165v: Bonaventure, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Decoration: 1 large red init...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

73. Harley MS 3264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3264
Title:
Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

74. Harley MS 3282

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3282
Title:
Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

75. Harley MS 3296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3296
Title:
Palladius, De re rustica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De re rustica (On Agriculture), a treatise by the Roman writer Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (fl. late 4th to early 5th century). The work gives detailed instructions for the typical activities on a Roman farm for each month of the year, starting with Ja...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

76. Harley MS 3297

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3297
Title:
John Chrysostom, Contra Anomoeos quod Deus incomprehensibilis sit, and Adversus Judeaos
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-29r: John Chrysostom, De incomprehensibili dei natura homiliae [here entitled: 'Contra Anomoeos quod Deus incomprehensibilis sit']; translated from Greek into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439). ff. 29r-80r: John Chrysostom, Adversus Judeaos [here entitled: 'Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

77. Harley MS 3301

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3301
Title:
Commentaries on Juvenal and Persius
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-91r: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires, beginning with a Life of Juvenal (ff. 1r-1v), with the heading: 'Decii Junij Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirarum Expositio et primo Vita poete'; beginning: 'Iunius Iuvenalis Aquinas id est de Aquino oppido oriundus et natus'. ff. 91v-93: Comment...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

78. Harley MS 3333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3333
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript containing the Facetiae (Jokes) by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459) was completed on 10 June 1456. The Facetiae was one of the most popular joke books of the Renaissance. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
A parchment codex

79. Harley MS 3340

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3340
Title:
Guarino da Verona, letters to Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, and Poggio Bracciolini, Apostolic Secretary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Guarino da Verona [Guarino Veronese] (b. 1374, d. 1460), Letter to Leonello d'Este (b. 1407, d. 1450) in 1435, Marquis of Ferrara, entitled: 'Guarinus ill. domino Leonallo estensi salutem'; beginning: 'Nuncius ecce novus affertur'. ff. 1v-55r: Guarino da Verona, Letter t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1435-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

80. Harley MS 3387

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3387
Title:
El libro di perfecta penitentia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Italian treatise on penance, beginning: 'In nomine domini. Amen. In comincia una operetta intitulata el libro di perfecta penitentia'. Decoration: Large and small plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume