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3281. Harley MS 4920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4920
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-150r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with a coat of arms, supported by two angels, and an historiated initial in colours and gold with a man at a lecturn (f. 1r). Partial border with rinceaux decoration, a quadripartite square in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450-1464
Extent:
1 volume

3282. Harley MS 4922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4922
Title:
Marcus Junianus Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-127r: Marcus Junianus Justinus (Justin), Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi. Decoration: Historiated initial with a man in profile combined with a full foliate border with birds, coats of arms, a lion and putti (f. 1r). 42 white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 7r, 16r, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450-1466
Extent:
1 volume

3283. Harley MS 4927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4927
Title:
Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3284. Harley MS 4929

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4929
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Cicero, De Officiis, books 1-3; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 26v-37v: Cicero, De Amicitia. ff. 38r-46r: Cicero, De Senectute. f. 46v: Index of chapters. Decoration: Large blue initials in frames of red penwork. Capitals (1-line) highlighted in red. Paraphs in re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3285. Harley MS 4930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4930
Title:
The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3286. Harley MS 4931

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4931
Title:
Composite volume of tracts and papers
Scope & Content:
Composite volume of prose and verse, state papers (chiefly 1640-1641), and parliamentary reports. In various hands. With an alphabetical index in a contemporary hand prefixed (ff. 1-6). Contents: f. 1: Miscellaneous epigrams from Latin authors and other sources. ff. 2-7r: Index to the volum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3287. Harley MS 4937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4937
Title:
Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-150v: Seneca, Tragoediae, with marginal glosses, dated to the early 15th century, possibly Venice, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Each tragedy is introduced by a prologue. f. 1r: Added post-medieval inscription. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3288. Harley MS 4943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4943
Title:
Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:
Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1570-1580
Extent:
1 volume

3289. Harley MS 4947

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4947
Title:
Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, De ira Dei, and De opificio Dei
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes works by Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 240, d. c. 320), early Christian author and advisor to emperor Constantine I, preceded by his short biography by Jerome: 1. Jerome, Vita Lactantii, excerpt from De viris illustribus, incipit: 'Firminus qui est Lactantius Arn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

3290. Harley MS 4949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4949
Title:
Hilary of Poitiers, De Trinitate, De Synodis, Liber contra Constantium imperatorem, Liber ad Constantium imperatorem, Contra arianos sive Contra Auxentium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-157v: Hilary of Poitiers, De Trinitate. ff. 130r-146v: Hilary of Poitiers, De Synodis. ff. 146v-152r: Hilary of Poitiers, Liber contra Constantium imperatorem. ff. 152r-155r: Hilary of Poitiers, Liber ad Constantium imperatorem. ff. 155v-157v: Hilary of Poitiers, Contra ari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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