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3581. Harley MS 5403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5403
Title:
Alchemical tracts; German treatise on the transmutation of the elements; alchemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Alchemical tracts in Latin. ff. 16r-37r: A German treatise on the transmutation of the elements. f. 37v-38r: An alchemical recipe by Johannes Ediling. ff. 38v-56v: Alchemical tracts in Latin. ff. 56v-59v: Tracts in German by Nicholaus of Breslau. ff. 60r-72v: Alchemi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3582. Harley MS 5404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5404
Title:
Euclid, Elementa (translated by Adelard of Bath)
Scope & Content:
Contains books 1-12 of Euclid's Elementa, translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath. Text lacking (the end of 1.33 through the beginning of 1.37) between ff 16v and 17r. Geometric diagrams drawn in the margins in black ink illustrate principles of the text. Twelve puzzle initials in red and blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

3583. Harley MS 5406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5406
Title:
Varro, De lingua latina, bks 5-9
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: table of contents, incorrectly listing De lingua Latina bks 4-9 instead of 5-9. ff. 2*v-3*r: reused folios from two other medieval manuscripts with unidentified theological texts. f. 2*v is a pastedown. ff. 1r-134v: De lingua latina libri XXV (On the Latin Language in Twenty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3584. Harley MS 5408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5408
Title:
An abridgement of law reports
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-235r: An abridgement of law reports; featuring a note in English on f. 158r: ‘After 4 leaves a day this book is r[...] on in 10 dayes’ ff. 236v-238v: Memoranda in English concerning legal matters, dated to the 14th year of Henry VIII (1522-1523).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3585. Harley MS 5411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5411
Title:
Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum Fortuna aut Virtute; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad Meretrices Romanas
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ff. 24v-51v: Plutarch, Vita Pyrrhi. ff. 52r-69v: Plutarch, Vita Quinti Sertorii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3586. Harley MS 5412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5412
Title:
Sallust, Catiline
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-56: Sallust, Catiline. This is a 12th-century copy, with the beginning (f. 1-1v) and end (ff. 49r-56v) supplied by the 15th-century scribe of Harley MS 2648, which is a copy of Juvenal's Satires written in 1410, according to de la Mare, 'Humanistic' (1977).There are also distin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3587. Harley MS 5413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5413
Title:
Collection of Horace’s works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: ownership inscription, Claudius Houssardus, 15th century. ff. 2r-73v: Horace, Odes. ff. 73v-88r: Horace, Epodes. ff. 88v-90r: Horace, Carmen Saeculare (Worldly Song). ff. 90r-101r: Horace, Ars Poetica (The Poetic Art). ff. 101r-149v: Horace, Satirae (The Satires), glossed. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3588. Harley MS 5414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5414
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century - 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3589. Harley MS 5415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5415
Title:
Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter. For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1463-c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

3590. Harley MS 5418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5418
Title:
Brut Chronicle; Chronicon Angliae ab anno 75 ad 1192; Mirabilia Angliae; a fragmentary political work; Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo, De bello italico adversus Gotos
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 1r-82v) was written in England in the 4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 83r-105v) may have been written in Italy in the 17th century. Part 3 (ff. 106r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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