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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 842
Title:: John Leland, Itinerary in England and Wales (excerpts)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-93v: Excerpts from John Leland's Itinerary in England and Wales (1539-1543); in Stillingfleet’s catalogue entitled 'Dodderige's Geographical Description of several Counties in England'. Decoration: A drawing of a cross purporting to be King Arthur’s gravestone (‘Hic iacet ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1039
Title:: Arms of rulers and nobles of foreign countries
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 3: contents list headed ‘1566’. Signed at the bottom of the folio, ‘John Withie Ano 1630’. ff. 4-11: Arms of the King of Spain, of the several kingdoms under his government, and of Spanish nobility. ff. 12-21: Names of the provinces of France; arms of the King and peers of Fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1596
Title:: Obiecta Hebraeorum in D. Matthei evangelium subiectis responsionibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Obiecta Hebraeorum in D. Matthei evangelium subiectis responsionibus, with a prologue by 'G. Genebrardus', who is said to have translated it into Latin (f. 2r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3500
Title:: Latin version of the Lead Books of Sacromonte
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Latin translation of the Lead Books of Sacromonte by the Franciscan friar and Arabic specialist Bartolomeus a Pectorano [Bartolomé de Pettorano] (d. 1688) at the Convent of Saint Isidore in Rome in 1644. The Lead Books of Sacromonte are a set of 22 books with lead leav...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1644-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3664
Title:: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-109v: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law, with examples referring to French clerics, officials and churches (e.g. 'Episcopus Ambianensis', 'ecclesie Arelatensis', 'Thesaurario Lemovicensis'), beginning: 'Processus super executione sententiæ late in causa pecu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4105
Title:: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem and Orationes in Catilinam
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-79r: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem (Speeches against Verres). ff. 80r-97r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Speeches against Catiline). ff. 30r, 79v, and 97v are blank. The manuscript was probably written by the scribe of Harley 4106 and 4921 and these manuscripts, which are similar in si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1462
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4342
Title:: Bartholomew of San Concordio, Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-206v: Bartholomew of San Concordio, Summa de Casibus Conscientiae. f. 207r: ownership inscription of an Augustinian friar, 1585. 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf between ff. 206 and 207. f. 1*v is blank. Decoration: Full floral border in colours and gold with a decorated initial, an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1456
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4794
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis. f. 74v: Added pen-trials and drawing of a bearded head, 16th century. Decoration: White vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 5r, 46v). Display script in gold (f. 5r). Circular diagram in brown ink (ff. 46...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5255
Title:: Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5433
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-70: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis, written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini]...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1446
Extent:: 1 volume

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