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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6522
Title:: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, Orationes in Catilinam, De senectute, De amicitia and Paradoxa stoicorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-67v: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, written by Jean Blanchard, probably in 1463 (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979)). ff. 67v-85v: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam, written by Jean Blanchard in 1469. ff. 86r-105v: Cicero, De senectute. ff. 106r-12...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1463-1469
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 515
Title:: Theophrastus von Hohenheim, De invocatione Sanctae Virginis et Matris Domini Mariae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-26r: Theophrastus von Hohenheim [Paracelsus], De invocatione Sanctae Virginis et Matris Domini Mariae.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 517
Title:: Valentin Weigel (?), Tractatus de creatione et lapsu humanorum et angelorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-155r: ? Valentin Weigel, Tractatus de creatione et lapsu humanorum et angelorum.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1787
Title:: Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, and other theological texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of theological texts, written by multiple hands. Contents: ff. 1r-180r: Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, glossed. ff. 181r-186r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De vanitate mundi, book iv, glossed. ff. 186r-194v: Geoffrey of Trani, Summa super titulus Decretalium. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6324
Title:: Alanus de Insulis (attributed), Commentary on Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Alanus de Insulis (attributed), Commentary on Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. f. 1r: Notarial inscription. f. 68v: Added inscription regarding the purchase of the manuscript written by Sozomeno (b. 1387 at Pistoia, d. 1458), who studied at the University of Pad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2497
Title:: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae; Albert Berdini of Sarteano, Laudatio ad Poggium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae (Letters). ff. 72r-74r: Albert Berdini of Sarteano, O.F.M (b. 1385, 1450), Laudatio ad Poggium (Eulogy to Poggio). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 75v: a note in a French hand from around the 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2303
Title:: The Prevarication of Holy Church Libertyes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3r: Henry Tichborne, dedication to King James II, beginning: ‘To the Kings most Excellent Majestie These Humbly Presented: The Virtues of your most Illustrious Ancestors have in all Ages since Christianity inlightned our Horizon, and been the Glory of so many Princes as have de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506
Title:: Collection of astronomical and astrological treatises
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Hyginus, De astronomia (ff. 1r-30r); 2. Priscian, De duodecim signis (ff. 30r-30v); 3. Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum (ff. 30v-32r); 4. De nominibus stellarum (ff. 33r-35r); 5. Marcus Tullius...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990-c 1000
Extent:: 93 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2940
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: This illuminated Book of Hours is one of only two known surviving products of the collaboration of the workshops of the Boucicaut Hours master (active c. 1390-1430) and of the Rohan master (active c. 1410-1440), who were the leading illuminators in 15th-century Paris. The other Book of Hours tha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

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