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3081. Harley MS 4106

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4106
Title:
Cicero, De Bello Gallico
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-77v: Cicero, De Bello Gallico. The manuscript was probably written by the scribe of Harley MSS 4105 and 4921 and these manuscripts, which are similar in size, style of decoration, and all other particulars (including similar creases in the parchment), may have originally forme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1462
Extent:
1 volume

3082. Harley MS 4114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4114
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on the Canon Medicine, Book 3, Fen iv-vi by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in its Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1486
Extent:

195 folios.

3083. Harley MS 4121

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4121
Title:
Historia Augusta, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Biographies of Roman emperors, their heirs, and usurpers from Hadrian (76-138) to Numerian (d. 284), often spurious, and attributed to six authors also of doubtful authenticity (Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Vulcacius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trebellius Pollio, Flavius Vopiscus Sy...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3084. Harley MS 4123

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4123
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae; Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscripts of two parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 2r-126r) was written in the Southern Netherlands in 1349. Part 2 was written in England or the Southern Netherlands in the 2nd half of the 14th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 2r-49r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1349-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3085. Harley MS 4124

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4124
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Life of Bede; Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. ff. 82v-87v: Life of Bede with a preface ('Vita Beati Bede presbiteri et Girwensis monachi'). ff. 87v-89v: Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow ('Vita Sanctorum abbatem monasterii in Wiramutha & Giruum'); i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3086. Harley MS 4131

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4131
Title:
Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; jury presentments for Gloucestershire
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-363v: Register of the Causes of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1628 to 1633. ff. 364v-477v: Rental of the royal lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in the 30th year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1538/9). ff. 478r-571v: Jury presentments at quarter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1538-1633
Extent:
1 volume

3087. Harley MS 4132

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4132
Title:
Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; heavily annotated by various later hands. Decoration: Several puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration. Numerous simple initials in red or blue, frequently with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Running he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3088. Harley MS 4136

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4136
Title:
Essex indentures and wills; accounts from a merchant of the Company of the Staple at Calais
Scope & Content:
A composite collection of indentures and last wills relating to Essex, compiled between 1580 and 1612, inter-mixed with copies of account rolls in an earlier hand, and leaves from an English cloth merchant's account book from the early 1540s. The latter's notes indicate that they were a merchant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

3089. Harley MS 4144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4144
Title:
Lorenzo Valla, Select works
Scope & Content:
A copy of Lorenzo Valla's (1407-1457) three orations possibly from 15th-century Naples, written by Giovanmarco Cinico. Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Lorenzo Valla, Apology to Pope Eugen IV, begins 'Aequius erat summe pontifex....'. f. 38v: blank. ff. 39r-57r: Lorenzo Valla, Aliud Siculum aliud Neap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1470
Extent:
1 volume

3090. 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

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