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161. Harley MS 6327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6327
Title:
Cicero, Academica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Academica, an epistemological work by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Cicero, Academica priora; ff. 7r-34v: Cicero, Academica posteriora. Decoration: Inhabited initials in colours and go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

162. Harley MS 6328

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6328
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale Puerorum, with gloss commentary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Gloss to the Doctrinale Puerorum. f. 2v: Short tracts, including a list of the Nine Orders of Angels; a poem for calculating the calends on each month, beginning: 'Sex Maius nonas, October, Julius, et Mars / Quattuor at reliqui: tenet ydus quilibet octo'; and Colucius Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

163. Harley MS 6329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6329
Title:
Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Marginal notes on Victorinus; added in the 15th century. f. i verso: Title inscription in pencil: 'Fabii Victorini Commentari in M. T. Ciceronis Rhetor[…]s'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-1458
Extent:
1 volume

164. Harley MS 6455

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6455
Title:
Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano (printed book, 1531)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains printed and handwritten texts relating to Italian poetry. Contents: ff. 2r-17r: A printed book with a decorated frontispiece: 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso - Con Privilegio'; printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562. ff. 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1531-c 1572
Extent:
1 volume

165. Harley MS 6511

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6511
Title:
'Nota sex tantum casus', a treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-50v: 'Nota sex tantum casus', a Latin treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae. The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 1r-1v: An exposition on the mass, beginning 'Missa ideo [sic] vocatur quia missa est pro nobis hostia ad deum placa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

166. Harley MS 6512

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6512
Title:
Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Fragmentary annotations by the humanist Sozomeno da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458) on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. The old foliation (nos. 56, 57, 49, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96) indicates that the leaves were once part of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427-c 1458
Extent:
1 volume

167. Harley MS 6516

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6516
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (b. 86 BC, d. c. 35 BC), also known as Sallust. De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline) chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government of Rome by the aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC. De Bello ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

168. Harley MS 6519

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6519
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, De Nobilitate Vera
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De Nobilitate Vera was completed on 27 September 1446 (f. 18v). Contents: Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459): De Nobilitate Vera (About True Nobility).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1446
Extent:

1 volume

169. Harley MS 6525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6525
Title:
Johannes Gallicus, Ritus canendi vetutissimus et novus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus (The oldest and the new custom of singing), a musical treatise concerning the teaching and performance of plainchant, written by the French humanist and musical theorist Johannes Gallicus (b. c. 1415, d. 147...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

170. Harley MS 7642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7642
Title:
Commentaries on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two texts with commentaries on Aristotle that were separately produced in Italy in the 14th century, and joined together at a later stage. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-46r: Commentary by Jacobus de Clohac on the Analytica priora of Aristotle, entitled: 'Sum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item