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1. Add MS 22754

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 22754
Title:
Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1451-c 1457
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 47683

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 47683
Title:
Detached leaf from a giant Bible
Scope & Content:
This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Davis849

Reference (shelfmark):
Davis849
Title:
Dogale, Instructions to Benetto Moro Giuro, on becoming a member of the Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-58v: Dogale, Instructions to Benetto Moro Giuro, on becoming a member of the Council; two untranscribed monograms with the scribe’s name at the end. ff. 61r-67r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘Rubrica’. Decoration: A frontispiece with full borders featuring animals and p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 117

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 117
Title:
Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria; Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria: delli Acquisti fatti da loro, e le Cause per le quasi sono nate le presenti Revolutioni di Germania. ff. 44r-74v: Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 631
Title:
Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis; Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis; Johannis de Parisine, De Regia et Papali Potestate; Conrad of Gelnhausen, Epistola Concordie; Peter of Ancarano, Compilation for solving the Papal Schism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r- 39r: Liber dialogorum gerarchie subcelestis inter orthodoxum catholicum et cathecuminum Paucascium inquirentem de reformacione ecclesie militante. ff. 41r-170v: Marsilius of Padua (b. c. 1275, d. 1342), Defensor pacis. ff. 172r-200r: ‘Magister Johannes de Parisine de ordi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1400s
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 1347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1347
Title:
Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu sancto
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-205v: Diogenes Laertius (fl. ? 3rd century), Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, trans. by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439), theologian and friend of Nicholas of Cusa, for Cosimo de' Medici (b. 1389, d. 1464). ff. 206r-275r: Gregory of Nazianzus (b. 330, d. 390), Oration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A paper codex

8. Harley MS 1702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1702
Title:
Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-178r: Petri Prataei analecta medicinalia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 1816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1816
Title:
Consultatio de Calice Laycis porrigendo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: 'Consultatio de Calice Laycis porrigendo'; Book V, Chapters 1-11 of Diego Laynez (b. 1512, d. 1565), Disputationes Tridentinae.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 1865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1865
Title:
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia. Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourished decoration in red, some in form of birds or creatures (ff. 1r, 8v, 13v, 25r, 36r, 46r, 56r). Two initials in blue with penwork decoration in red (f. 1r). Rubrics in r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume