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1. Harley MS 1313

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1313
Title:
A collection of Relazioni, final reports presented by Venetian ambassadors of their service in foreign states
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-448v: a collection of Relazioni, final reports presented by Venetian ambassadors of their service in foreign states.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2548

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2548
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Marcus Tullius Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium; epitaph of St Bernardino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-76r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. ff. 77r-93r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium. f. 93v: Epitaph of St Bernardino. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 94v: An excerpt from Quintilian, beginning: 'Nempe enim in hoc plurimum laboris exhau...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1470
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2614

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2614
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
Contents: The text written by written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis: colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r). Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers ff. 1r-3v: P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2993
Title:
Roman martyrology; lectionary for the use of Crutched Friars; an astronomical treatise
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-86v: Roman martyrology (Martyrologium romanum); imperfect at the beginning. ff. 86v-88v: Lectionary for the use of Crutched Friars; imperfect at the end. ff. 89r-101v: Astronomical work, identified as 'Liber computi Magistri boni', including headings such as 'Tractatus de s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1437
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3393

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3393
Title:
Statutes of the Republic of Venice
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-148v: Statutes of the Republic of Venice in Latin and Italian, continued to c. 1581; with an index (ff. 140r-148v). Large initials with black cadels throughout. The title of the table of contents ('Repertorium') inscribed in gold on f. 140r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 3395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3395
Title:
Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as podestà and captain of Koper
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Giovanni Maria Contarini by the Venetian doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545-1553) in 1551. The text concerns Contarini's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the city of Koper, near Trieste (once part of Venetian Is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1551
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3403
Title:
Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy. The binding of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1515
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3686

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3686
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 3932

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3932
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Title-page, added in a post-medieval hand. ff. 2r-43v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). f. 44v: an added inscription in a 15th-century Italian hand. ff. 1v and 44r are ruled and unwritten. Decoration: White vine initial in colours and g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 4950

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4950
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutiones. Decoration: Partial border and initial with foliate decoration in colours and gold, with two winged putti supporting a laurel medallion with arms in the bas-de-page (f. 2r). Initials in gold with foliate decoration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume