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Project / Collection Harley Collection Name Decembrio, Pier Candido, scholar, author and translator, 1399-1477 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 941
Title:
A collection of treatises relating to history, astrology, magic, astronomy, geography and rhetoric, comprising John Lydgate's Dietary and other verses and medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*v: An added abbreviated list of contents. ff. 1r-3v: De origine gigantum, an abbreviated version of the Anglo-Norman French Des Grantz Geanz, written in Latin. The short narrative tells the Story of Albina and her sisters often used as a preface to the Brut Chronicle. The leave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 1705

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1705
Title:
Plato's Republic, translated into Latin by Pier Candido Decembrio
Scope & Content:
The preliminary copy of the translation of the first five books of the Republic by Pier Candidio Decembrio (b. 1399, d. 1477), in his autograph. The manuscript also contains Decembrio’s correspondence with Humphrey (b. 1390, d. 1447), prince, soldier, and literary patron, duke of Gloucester from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1441
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2587

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2587
Title:
Grammatical miscellany including Sextus Pompeius Festus, De Verborum significatione
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collection of Late Antique and Renaissance grammatical tracts. Contents: ff. 1r-73v: Sextus Pompeius Festus, De Verborum significatione ff. 74r-116v: Pier Candido Decembrio, Grammaticon. ff. 117r-133v: Nonius Marcellus, Compendiosa doctrina, excerpts. Decoration: White vine i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume.