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21. Harley MS 3003

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3003
Title:
Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82r: Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2; with an index of contents (ff. 1r-2v), and contemporary glosses and notabilia in a cursive hand. The manuscript contains an addition: f. [i]verso: An inscription: 'Iste isidorus fuit ipse Scadij imperatoris et [...] mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Harley MS 3059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3059
Title:
Collection of theological works by Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo; a treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:
A collection of works by Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033/4, d. 1109), Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), Jerome (d. 420), and Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). Compendium de epidemia, a treatise on plague compiled by the Paris medical faculty, has been added to the end of the volume, as w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

23. Harley MS 3568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3568
Title:
A collection of letters and orations by Italian humanists
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68r: Antonio Beccadelli, Epistolae. f. 68r: Philippi Macedonum regis Epistola ad Aristotelem. ff. 68r-78r: Leonardo Bruni (Aretino), oration. ff. 78r-79v: Leonardo Bruni (Aretino), Letter to Johannes Marasius Siculus ff. 79v-80r: Pulex poeta de ortu et obitu hermaphrodit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1425-1463
Extent:

1 volume

24. Harley MS 3593

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3593
Title:
Lawrence of Aquilegia, Summa dictaminis and letter collection
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Summa dictaminis edita iuxta doctrinam Tullii (Summary of letter-writing, learned through the instruction of Tullius [Marcus Tullius Cicero]), a treatise on the ars dictaminis, the art of letter writing, written by the thirteenth-century Italian canon and teacher Law...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

25. Harley MS 3754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3754
Title:
Collection of classical texts, including Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, with annotations by Petrarch
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Virgil, Bucolica. ff. 4v-14v: Virgil, Georgica. ff. 14v-61r: Virgil, Aeneid, with a verse preface. ff. 61v-101r: Lucan, De Bello Civili (On the Civil War) or Pharsalia. ff. 101r-120v: Statius, Thebaid, imperfect, comprising Bks. I-VI (up to l. 482). ff. 121r-155v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

26. Harley MS 4090

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4090
Title:
Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De re uxoria, a treatise on marriage written by Francesco Barbaro (b. 1390, d. 1454), a Venetian politician, diplomat and humanist. The work was composed to celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo de Medici (b. c. 1395, d. 1440) and Ginevra Cavalcanti (b. 1397, d. 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

27. Harley MS 4740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4740
Title:
Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v is blank. ff. 2r-163v: Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti. ff. 164r-175v: an index for the text. Occasional contemporary marginal notes. Decoration: 1 marginal coloured pen drawing of a brazier with fruits (f. 2r). Large initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 5128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5128
Title:
Dictionary of canon law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-438v: A dictionary of canon law, beginning: 'Quoniam memoria hominum labilis'. Decoration: 2 large initials in pink, green, and blue with floral and foliate motifs (ff. 1r, 53v). 1 large historiated initial in colours (f. 65v). 15 large initials in red, some with simple flor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 5210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5210
Title:
Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-252v: Jacobus de Varagine [Voragine], Legenda aurea, beginning with an introduction: 'Universum tempus presentis vite in quatuor distinguitur [tempora] scilicet in tempus deviationis, renovationis sive revocationis, reconciliationis et peregrinationis'; followed by a table of c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

30. Harley MS 5429

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5429
Title:
Sallust, De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 2 large blue initials with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 21r). Initials in blue or red, usually alternating. Smaller initials in blue or red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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