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1051. Harley MS 3237

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3237
Title:
St Jerome, Epistles
Scope & Content:
The first volume of a collection of St Jerome's letters. The second volume is Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. This volume contains items 1-51 of the 117 items listed at the end of Salisbury Cathedral MS 143. Contents: ff. 1r-106v: St Jerome, Epistles. The manuscript contains a few later addition...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1052. Harley MS 3916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3916
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Cicero, De Amicitia (On Friendship). [f. 49v is blank]. Decoration: 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold and an unidentified coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). Protagonists' names and rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1053. Harley MS 3921

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3921
Title:
Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De officiis (On duties), a Latin treatise in three books, written by the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-197v: Cicero, De officiis. Decoration: Large initials with blue grisaille on gold panels with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1054. Harley MS 3976

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3976
Title:
Pius II, Cosmographia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Cosmographia, written by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (b. 1405, d. 1464), who became Pope Pius II in 1458. Contents: ff. 1r-183v: Pius II, Cosmographia. Decoration: 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold enclosing a portrait of Pope Pius II in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1055. 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

1056. Harley MS 5439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5439
Title:
Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Divinae institutiones (The Divine Institutes), a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 350). Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones. f. 196v is blank. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1057. Harley MS 2534

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2534
Title:
Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica, and Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Virgil, Aeneid [extract], beginning: 'Iamque adeo super unus eram, cum limina Veste'. f. 1v: A table of contents for this manuscript; with the minor poems added by a later hand. ff. 2r-9v: Virgil, Bucolica; with commentaries and glosses. ff. 10r-31v: Virgil, Georgica; wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1058. Harley MS 5485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5485
Title:
Şerh-i Gulistan - شرح گلستان
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish paraphrase of the Gulistān (گلستان) of Saᶜdī by Şemi. The author says in the preface that he had withdrawn from the commerce of men, and was living in contented seclusion, when he was requested by Mehmet Çelebi, Debir (Steward) of the Padişah''s gardens,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1000
Extent:

2 texts, 239 ff

1059. Harley MS 2957

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2957
Title:
Usuard, Martyrology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologue to Usuard's Martyrology, entitled: 'De prologis diversis super opus martirologij: per quos patet . quantam diligentiam sancti et antiqui ad compilacionem huius opusculi habebant'; featuring a letter by Cromantius et Heliodorus to Jerome on ff. 1r-1v ('Epistola Chr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1060. Harley MS 306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 306
Title:
Collection of tracts relating to trade in England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Copy of '[t]he victuellinge of the Kinge and the Queenes Majesties Shippes there [Portesmowth, London and Dovar], beginninge the firste of Januarie, 1556 / And ending the laste of Marche followinge, as well for the Seas as in Harborowe, which Victuallinge was made by Edw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

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