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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4927
Title:: Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4952
Title:: A martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February; Passion of St Catherine of Alexandria
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-167r: A martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February. ff. 168r-171v: Passion of St Catherine of Alexandria. Decoration: 1 large initial with foliate motifs in silver, blue, mauve, green, red and beige (f. 18v). 1 large initial with foliate motifs and a clasp on a c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4985
Title:: The Old Testament books of Tobias, Judith, Ruth and Proverbs, with glosses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-125r: The Old Testament books of Tobias, Judith, Ruth and Proverbs, with glosses. Decoration: 3 large initials in green and red or blue, green, and red at the beginning of each book (ff. 2r, 33v, 69r). Blank space left for initial (f. 84r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5000
Title:: Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-99r: Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), Comoediae. Decoration: Decorated initials in red ink. Rubrics, running headers, and abbreviations of protagonists' names in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century - 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5002
Title:: Book of Exodus with glosses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-156r: The Book of Exodus with glosses.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5054
Title:: The direct manner and order of Proceeding in Causes and Suytes depending in the high Court of Chancery; Plato, Apologia Socratis; William of Auxerre, Summa aurea; and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of five parts that were produced separately. The first three parts (ff. 1-30; ff. 31-54; ff. 55-54) were written in England in the 17th century. The fourth part (ff. 79-200) was written in England in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The fifth part (ff. 202-309) was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5140
Title:: Pauline Epistles with glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 12r-193v: The Pauline Epistles with glossa ordinaria, preceded by a table of pericope readings (ff. 1v-4v) and an introduction (ff. 5r-11v). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: lists of number of chapters of each book of the Old Testament and the Pauline Epistles; w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5217
Title:: Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Olivier de la Marche (b. c. 1425, d. 1502), military advice for a prince ('je me suis delibere de mettre par escript quelle chose cest dun gage de bataille comment le prince et le iuge si doibt conduire selon raison et bonne equite'), dedicated to Philip the Good (r. 1419...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5237
Title:: Boethius, De institutione musica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione musica (On the Principles of Music), imperfect (Book 1, 23-Book 5, 8) beginning at the chapter 23 of the first book: 'Hoc igitur modo per singular tetrachorda in generum proprietates partitio facta est', ending at the chapter 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5284/2
Title:: Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum; beginning: 'Hunc librum Smaragdus composuit qui nomen diadema monachorum illi imposuit: quia sicut diadema gemmis ita et hic liber virtutibus’. Decoration: Large red or brown initials with minor penwork decoration in the same colour. Small...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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