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3471. Harley MS 5263

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5263
Title:
Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula and Palladius, Opus agriculturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula (On the Old Woman), including the preface of ‘Leo the Protonotary’ (ff. 1r-v), glossed. ff. 50r-99v: Palladius, Opus agriculturae (The Work of Agriculture). f. 49v is blank. 1 parchment stub between f. 31 and 32 and between f. 90 and 91. Horziont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3472. Harley MS 5264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5264
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Officiis (On Duties), a treatise in three books, written by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The first folio of the manuscript is lacking. Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Cicero, De Officiis (On Duties), imperfect. Decoration: W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1441
Extent:
1 volume

3473. Harley MS 5265

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5265
Title:
Notes on law lectures; law treatises
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, consisting of one part (ff. 1-234) with lecture notes in French and English, produced in the 2nd half of the 16th century, and another part (ff. 235-264) with law texts in Latin, produced in the 13th century. Contents: ff. 1r-234v: A collection of no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3474. Harley MS 5266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5266
Title:
Euclid, Elements
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Euclid's Elements, translated by Adelard of Bath, with an added table of contents (f. 127r) and a round map of the world (mappa mundi) (f. 128v). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours with a portrait of Euclid (f. 1r). 7 large initials in colours with birds or animals ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3475. Harley MS 5267/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5267/2
Title:
Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio and De diligendo Dei, and other works
Scope & Content:
This is the second volume of Harley MS 5267. The first volume is Harley MS 5267/1. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Pseudo-Sallust, In M. Tullium Ciceronem invectiva. ff. 7r-83v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae. ff. 84r-101v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio. ff. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3476. Harley MS 5268

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5268
Title:
Virgil, Aeneis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-203: Virgil, Aeneis, written by Bartolomeo Sanvito, perhaps for Evangelista Gonzaga (b. before 1440, d. 1492): his erased arms and offset of his initials in capital letters (ff. 1v, 2; see de la Mare and Nuvoloni 2009). ff. 54 and 71 are palimpsests. Decoration: 1 large and 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3477. Harley MS 5269

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5269
Title:
Lucan, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added list of dated events, starting with the year 1408, ending with the year 1423, and mentioning the Sforza. ff. 2-114: Lucan, Pharsalia. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with foliate and knotwork motifs, bezants, and heraldic devices in medallions (f. 2r). 9 in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3478. Harley MS 5270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5270
Title:
Peter Lombard, Libri Quattuor Sententiarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Peter Lombard’s Libri Quattuor Sententiarum. This copy has previously been dated to the 14th century (see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 257), but new analysis of the script and page layout indicates that it was produced in the late 12t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3479. Harley MS 5273

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5273
Title:
Book of Job, glossed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-99r: The Book of Job, glossed. The manuscript contains several later additions: f. 1r: An English note: ‘This Book belong’d to the Abbey of Rival or Rievaux in the County of York. Which Abbey of Cistertians was founded in the Year 1132. There ys a Book mention’d in Capleys ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3480. Harley MS 5274

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5274
Title:
John le Breton, Britton
Scope & Content:
Previously catalogued as 'Vetera Statuta' (Ancient Statutes), this manuscript contains a copy of the Britton, the earliest summary of law in England written in French, and being an updated version of Henry Bracton's mid 13th-century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Laws and Customs of Engl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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