Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5247
Title:: An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Miscellaneous notes and sayings in English or Latin. ff. 4r-33v: ‘A Briefe Treatise of Oathes exacted by Ordinances and Ecclesiastical Judges to answer generally to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleaseth them to propound and of their forced and constrayned oathe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5248
Title:: Augustine, De musica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-121v: Augustine, De musica (On Music). ff. 122r-127v: Horace, poems. ff. 127v-133v: Unidentified text on classical poetry. Possibly the hand of Leonardo Giustiniani of Venice, according to Albinia de la Mare (see Watson 1979). ff. 3v and 133v are blank. Decoration: White v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1423
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5249
Title:: Processional
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70v: A processional with musical notation. Decoration: A small initial in gold with red and blue frame and half-border, partially gilded (f. 53v). Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5251
Title:: Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5254
Title:: Notes and commentary on Grotius De Jure Belli ac Pacis. Part 3
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes and commentary on Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace). Third and last of three volumes with continuous original foliation (the others are Harley MS 5057 and Harley MS 1838). f. 1: ‘Notae et Scholia in Hugonem Grotium de Jure Belli & Pacis. Par...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5255
Title:: Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5259
Title:: Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage from David to Christ; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria (Middle English)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Gesta Romanorum; featuring three Middle English couplets on f. 60v. f. 125v: A notes on the duty of confession, excerpted from the Summa de matrimonio (Compendium on Marriage) of Raymond of Peñafort. f. 125v: A Latin text on the allegorical meaning of the signs of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5261
Title:: Virgil, Bucolics, Georgica, Aeneid, and Epitaphs
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18r: Virgil, Bucolics. ff. 18v-63r: Virgil, Georgica. ff. 63v-266v: Virgil, Aeneid. ff. 267r-268v: Virgil, Epitaphs. Vertical catchwords. Written by Johannes de Parma: signed in cypher substituting the vowels by the following consonants (ff. 63r, 266v). Decoration: Minia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5262
Title:: Henry of Settimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione (Elegy on varying fortune and the consolation of philosophy), written by the Italian poet Henricus Florintinus (fl. late 12th century), commonly known as Henry of Septimello. Contents: f. 1*v: an a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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