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2501. Harley MS 3013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3013
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, Epistola ad Ehfridum; Aldhelm of Sherborne, De laudibus virginitatis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two didactic works composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury; and the De laudibus virginitatis (In Praise of Virginity), a work in 60 chapters extolling v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2502. Harley MS 4927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4927
Title:
Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2503. Harley MS 252

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 252
Title:
A collection of English historical, political and legal papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A fragment concerning the issuing of subpoenas from the Court of Chancery, without Bills of Complaint; imperfect. f. 3r: A crossed-out 17th-century text. ff. 3v-4v: ‘Heare followeth the Coppy of the Assignatyon of suche Landes and Revenewes as weare appoynted for the Su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1555-1645
Extent:
1 volume

2504. Harley MS 3509

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3509
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2505. Harley MS 6576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6576
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Walter Hilton, Scala Perfectionis; Latin translation by Thomas Fishlake (fl. 1377). ff. 128r-136r: Liber Vitae, beginning: 'De hiis que primo consideranda sunt tendenti ad perfeccionem contemplationis et ad vitam religiosam'. ff. 136v-138v: John Chrysostom, De eo quod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2506. Harley MS 2469

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2469
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia; Paradoxa Stoicorum; De Senectute; Timaeus; De Officiis; Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Institutione Morum; De Clementia; De Vita Beata
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia. ff. 12r-16v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum. ff. 16v-18r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Institutione Morum. ff. 19r-27r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute. ff. 27v-31v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Timaeus. ff. 32r-76v: Marcus Tu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2507. Harley MS 3094

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3094
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fidei; Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti ex opusculis S. Gregorii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-56v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis Christianae fidei (On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith); imperfect at the beginning. f. 57r: A single verse: 'Omnia qui libras diademata celica vibras'. ff. 58r-127v: Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti ex opuscul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2508. Harley MS 4003

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4003
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae and Expugnatio Hibernica; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae; and other historical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of historical works, including Topographia Hiberniae and Expugnatio Hibernia by the historian Gerald of Wales (b. 1146, d. 1223) and the Historia regum Britanniae of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth (b. c. 1095, d. c. 1155). The former binding of the manusc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 14th century-1st quarter 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2509. Harley MS 3504

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3504
Title:
Nicholas Upton, De officio militari; on the manner and form of keeping of Parliament; tracts on the baptism, coronation and consecration of kings and queens; Liber Armorum; account of the funeral procession of King Henry VII; (?)John Skelton, Verses presented to Henry VII on the feast of St George
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-8v: 'A Table declaringe the Contents of this Booke'. ff. 9r-198r: Nicholas Upton, De officio militari, here entitled: 'Tractatus de Armis Nic: Upton etc'; 'beginning: 'Summum opificem alpha et oo in essentia unum et trinum in personis'; consisting of 4 books entitled: 'De Col...
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

2510. Harley MS 5294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The manuscript is a compilation of late antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts. Contents as follows: 1. Notes on humours, partly in figures of division (f. 1r); 2. Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal, ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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