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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3444
Title:: Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:: Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: July 1553-July 1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3450
Title:: An atlas of 17 sea charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:: This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1578
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3469
Title:: Splendor Solis
Scope & Content:: Content: The manuscript contains the alchemical treatise Splendor Solis. Decoration: 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold with full borders. Very large calligraphic initials in gold. Capitals marked in gold. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 2r: The A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3475
Title:: Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Epitome on C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis historia dedicated to Augustino Maffei (b. 1431, d. 1496), Apostolic scriptor and curial official, humanist collector of books and antiquities by the author Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), Italian humanist (b. 1421,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1462-c 1466
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487
Title:: Aristotle, Libri naturales
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Aristotle, Libri Naturales (corpus vetustius), with glosses: Physica (ff. 4r-65v); De coelo et mundo (ff. 65v-121r); De generatione (ff. 121v-140v); Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 140v-173r); De anima (ff. 173r-197r); De memoria et reminiscenti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 4r-65v
Title:: Aristotle, Physica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle's Physica with marginal gloses in two or three columns. Decoration: 9 historiated initials in gold and colours at the beginning of books. f. 4r (book I: preface): initial Q(uoniam) of burning of books before a friar and a seated king. Below, a small miniature of a sleeping man and a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 61 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 65v-121r
Title:: Aristotle, De coelo et mundo
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De coelo et mundo in the Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: 3 historiated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of books: f. 65v (book I): initial 'S'(umma) of Christ holding concentric spheres of the universe. A small miniature below of three joined heads ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 56 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 121v-140v
Title:: Aristotle, De generatione
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De generatione. Decoration: 1 historiated initial 'G'(eneratione) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text of a couple in bed with children alongside (f. 140v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 140v-173r
Title:: Aristotle, Meteora
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Meteora, appended with Avicenna, De mineralibus (ff. 170r-173r). Decoration: 3 historiated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of major text divisions: f. 140v: initial 'P'(ost) of a scholar pointing at the sky with falling rain and a head spewing fire from clouds. f. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 33 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3487, ff 173r-197r
Title:: Aristotle, De anima
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De anima. Decoration: 3 historiated initials in colours and gold at the beginning of books: f. 173r (book I): initial 'B'(orum) of a death of a man with the judgement of his soul above. f. 180r (book II): initial 'H'(ec) of the resurrection of the dead. f. 191r (book III): initia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 24 folios.

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