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3391. Harley MS 5086

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5086
Title:
Edward of Norwich, The Master of Game; The Babees’s Book; The ABC of Aristotle; Dietary for King Henry V; Treatise on equine medicine
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century miscellany contains Middle English and Latin verse and prose treatises relating to hunting, manners, human and veterinary medicine. The cataloguing of the manuscript was partially funded by the Wellcome Trust. Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3392. Harley MS 5087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5087
Title:
Edward VI's letters and declamations
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30v: ‘Epistolae Edouardi principis illustrissimi quas suopte marte composuit & scripsit anno aetatis sue nono.’ Forty-three letters written by Edward to Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, his tutor Richard Cox, Edward Seymour, and the King of Poland’s envoy. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1546-1553
Extent:
1 volume

3393. Harley MS 5088

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5088
Title:
Pleas of the Crown 38 to 43 Edward III, 5 Henry V, and 4 to 19 Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Pleas of the Crown (Placita Coronae) from 38 to 43 Edward III [1364-1370], 5 Henry V [1417/8] and from 4 to 19 Henry VI [1425-1441]. Written in Law French, with marginal annotations in Latin. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*verso (parchment pastedown): ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3394. Harley MS 5098

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5098
Title:
Constantinus Africanus, Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

70 folios.

3395. Harley MS 5099

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5099
Title:
Peter the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum
Scope & Content:
f. 1r–v: List of capitula to Peter the Chanter (contemporary addition). ff. 2r–115r: Peter the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum, textus prior. With extensive corrections. f. 115r–v: Notes on confession added in a contemporary hand, with many quotations from Peter Lombard: ‘Hec sunt de quibus inquis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3396. Harley MS 5102

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5102
Title:
Psalter with Canticles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–136v: Psalms 1–150, with interlineal text in French (ff. 1r–23r); one of the 'Oxford Psalter' translations, according to Dean and Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999). A folio has been removed after f. 91, so that the text of Psalm 99:4-101:9 and the initial at the beginnin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

3397. Harley MS 5110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5110
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3398. Harley MS 5113

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5113
Title:
Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 9r-221v: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones, preceded by a chapter list (ff. 1r-8v), with marginal Latin translations of corresponding passages in Greek. Decoration: 1 full colour historiated initial including a portrait of a male figure holding a book, with foliate dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3399. Harley MS 5114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5114
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De legibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-226v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De legibus. Decoration: 12 large white vine initials in gold, red, green and blue, some with bird or animal heads (ff. 1r, 9r, 21r, 30r, 61r, 80r, 106v, 122r, 144r, 167v, 191v, 206v). The initial 'P'(ublium) on f. 206v features a gold dragon's hea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

3400. Harley MS 5117

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5117
Title:
Justinian, Codex and Tres libri
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is composed of two parts: a copy of Justinian's Codex (ff. 3r-199v) datable to the 1st half of the 12th century; Justinian's Tres libri Codicis (ff. 200r-239r) copied in the last quarter of the 12th century. It also includes three additions of the early 13th century: a table ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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