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1. Add MS 10366

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Title:
Piero della Francesca, De prospectiva pingendi,in a Latin translation by Matteo di Ser Paolo d'Anghiari
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the four extant Latin copies of De prospectiva pingendi: a treatise on perspective written originally in Italian by Piero della Francesca (b. 1412, d. 1492) and translated by his friend Maestro Matteo di Ser Paolo d’Anghiari. The treatise, divided into three books...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470 - 1492
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 10767

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Title:
Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 36617

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Title:
Al-Zahrawi, Chirurgia d'Albucasis, in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona; Arabic-Latin glossary of medical terms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated Latin translation of the Chirurgia d'Albucasis, a treatise on surgery by the Arabic physician and surgeon Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (b. 936, d. 1013), commonly known as 'al-Zahrawi'. The treatise represents the 30th and final...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 47683

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Title:
Detached leaf from a giant Bible
Scope & Content:
This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

5. Egerton Ch 134

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Egerton Ch 134
Title:
Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus; given at Pontem Ducis, 4 November 1109, written by the scribe Ribaldo, chaplain of Matilda of Tuscany, with the signatures of Baldus the Judge, Conon, and Michael the Archpresbyter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1109
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Egerton Ch 135

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Egerton Ch 135
Title:
Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa
Scope & Content:
Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa. Originally given at Massa Castle, 13 April 1112. Bearing the notarial mark and certificate of Pietro de Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1198 and 1212
Extent:
1 leaf

7. Harley MS 296

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Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 631

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Harley MS 631
Title:
Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis; Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis; Johannis de Parisine, De Regia et Papali Potestate; Conrad of Gelnhausen, Epistola Concordie; Peter of Ancarano, Compilation for solving the Papal Schism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 39r: Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis inter orthodoxum catholicum et cathecuminum Paucascium inquirentem de reformacione ecclesie militante. ff. 41r-170v: Marsilius of Padua (b. c. 1275, d. 1342), Defensor pacis. ff. 172r-200r: ‘Magister Johannes de Parisine de ordi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1400s
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1347

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Harley MS 1347
Title:
Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu sancto
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-205v: Diogenes Laertius (fl. ? 3rd century), Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, trans. by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439), theologian and friend of Nicholas of Cusa, for Cosimo de' Medici (b. 1389, d. 1464). ff. 206r-275r: Gregory of Nazianzus (b. 330, d. 390), Oration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A paper codex

10. Harley MS 1702

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Harley MS 1702
Title:
Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-178r: Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume