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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Milan, Italy Level [40] File

1. 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

2. Harley MS 2481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2481
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-275v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Marginal drawing in brown ink of a crowned woman (Andromache, wife of Hector) with her hands raised and a crowd of bystanders (f. 147v). 1 large red initial with brown penwork decoration and 1 brown initial with red penwork...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1401
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2526
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Petrarch, Vita Terentii. f. 5r: Epitaphium Terentii. ff. 5r-130v: Terence, Comoediae. Partial border and large initial in colours and gold (f. 5v). Other large initials in colours and gold (ff. 26v, 49r, 70v, 92v, 111r). 2 smaller initials in gold on blue and red, or bl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 3069

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3069
Title:
Prosper of Aquitaine, Liber sententiarum; Poema coniugis ad uxorem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works by Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 455), a Christian writer and disciple of St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 420). These are the Liber sententiarum (Book of sentences), a collection of maxims drawn up against St Augustine's writings, and his Poema coniu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3368

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3368
Title:
Michele Carcano, De commendatione virtutum et reprobatione vitiorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De commendatione virtutum et reprobatione vitiorum (On the praise of virtues and the rejection of vices), a Latin sermon by the Italian Franciscan preacher Michele Carcano (b. 1427, d. 1484). Contents: ff. 1r-203v: Michele Carcano, De commendatione virtutum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 3454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3454
Title:
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Opuscula
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Opuscula. Decoration: Border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours, with pen-flourishing in brown ink, a coat of arms in the lower margin, and a large historiated initial in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch seated (f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1398
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3460

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3460
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Commedia; Pseudo-Dante, Credo di Dante
Scope & Content:
This manuscript containing Dante's Commedia was written by Martin de Bonsegnoribus in Milan in 1469. It contains several drawings of scenes from the poem. Contents: ff. 5r-86r: Dante Alighieri, Commedia, preceded by the verse capitoli by Bosone da Gubbio (ff. 2r-3r) and Jacopo Alighieri (ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 5292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5292
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitoma de Tito Livio (Epitomy of Titus Livy), attributed to the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus (b. c. 74, d. 130). The Latin work is principally based on Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Founding of the City), a history of ancient Rome written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 7195

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7195
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:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume