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1. Harley MS 2586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2586
Title:
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova; Francesco Piccinini, Poetry collection dedicated to Antonius Astensis; Guarino da Verona, Epistolae; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Poetria nova of Geoffrey de Vinsauf (fl. 1200) and a poetry collection by Francesco Piccinini (fl. 15th century), who identifies himself as a ducal scribe and dedicates the work to Antonius Astensis. The volume also includes a number of letters by the Italian humanis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 3356

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3356
Title:
Select works of Agostino Dati
Scope & Content:
Select works of the 15th-century Sienese orator, philosopher and historian, Agostino Dati, in a humanist copy. Contents: ff. 1* recto-verso: Fragment of an 11th-century neumed missal of German provenance, including texts for Friday in the first week of Lent bound in the volume as a flyleaf. In...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 5198

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5198
Title:
Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax; Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Donatus, De barbarisimo; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Persius, Satires. ff. 15r-39r: Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae. ff. 39r-40v: Ovid (here attributed), De Philomena. ff. 40v-42r: Latin epigrams, including (among others): 'Maro ad augustum Caesarem'; 'Supplicat Cornelius Gallus ad Augustum ne comburatur Aeneis'; 'Suppl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1430-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 5345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5345
Title:
Agostino Dati, Eligantiae
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of a Renaissance rhetorical manual by Agostino Dati (1420–78), philosopher, theologian, historian, linguist and teacher in Siena. Contents: ff. 1* and 3* are parchment flyleaves with various inscriptions. ff. 1r-7r: Letter to a certain Franciscus congratulating him on marrying...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume