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641. Harley MS 2880

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2880
Title:
Collection of offices and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Office for the feast of Corpus Christi, entitled: 'In die venerabilis sacramenti'. ff. 8v-14v: Office for the feast of the Visitation, entitled: 'In visitacione beate marie virginis Invitatorium'; with a reading from a sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux ('Ex sermone Bernardi ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

642. Harley MS 4351

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4351
Title:
Registrum Brevium of Edward I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Registrum Brevium from the reign of King Edward I (r. 1272–1307); largely written in Latin, but including letters in French towards the end. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 37r (lower margin): A proverb in English: 'Let virtue springe and vyce decaye and g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

643. Harley MS 4743

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4743
Title:
Gasparo Contarini, De republica Venetorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-97r: Gasparo Contarini (b. 1483, d. 1542), De republica Venetorum, beginning: 'Non ita tamen continuum est'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

644. Harley MS 5146

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5146
Title:
Tenurae; Natura Brevium; Novelli Tenores
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of collections of legal cases written in Latin and French. It also contains a previously unidentified stanza from the Middle English poem The Court of Sapience, usually attributed to John Lydgate, but here assigned to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem has only been ide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1483
Extent:
1 volume

645. Harley MS 5339

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5339
Title:
A collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-113v ( + the insides of the upper and lower cover): Medical recipes in Latin; with an English recipe at the beginning: ‘To Rectified Sp[irit] of Wine per Robert Boyle Armiger’ [Robert Boyle (b. 1627, d. 1691), natural philosopher]. Decoration: A drawing of an arch with two ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

646. Harley MS 6773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6773
Title:
Two letters from Peterhouse, Cambridge
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Two letters in Latin sent from Peterhouse, Cambridge, to its patron; undated but probably written in the 15th century. The printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 394, suggests a date from the reign of Mary or Elizabeth, in the 16th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

647. Harley MS 1750

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1750
Title:
Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-203v: Collection of Latin sermons, including excerpts from the Summa de vitiis et virtutibus of Denis the Carthusian (b. 1402, d. 1471), entitled: 'Sequitur aliqua excerpta dyonisii cartusiensis valde utilia: ex libello quodam qui intitulatur Illuminatorium salutaris sciencie ....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

648. Harley MS 2394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2394
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-129r: Prick of Conscience; imperfect at the beginning: loss of text on ff. 1-7 due to damage to folios; ff. 128r-129r have been substituted for lost leaves in the 16th century. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 77r: A Middle English verse, ‘After my warkes deme no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

649. Harley MS 4059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4059
Title:
Albius Tibullus, Elegies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the collected works of Albius Tibullus (c. 55 BC–19 BC), a Roman poet and writer of elegies. Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Tibullus, Elegies, bk I. ff. 24v-57v: Tibullus, Elegies, bk II. Vertical catchwords. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours of a winged horse (Pegasus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1485-c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

650. Harley MS 4863

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4863
Title:
Silius Italicus, Punica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Punica, an epic poem in 17 books, written by the Roman consul and orator Silius Italicus (b. c. 28, d. c. 103). The poem relates the story of the Second Punic War and the conflict between the two generals Hannibal and Scipio Africanus. Contents: ff. 1r-117v: Sili...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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