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11. Harley MS 2696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2696
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Three-sided floral border with a large white vine initial and an unidentified coat of arms in colours and gold (f. 1r). 5 smaller white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 12v, 35v, 42v, 44r, 48v). Initials in blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 2758

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2758
Title:
Ovid, Heroides
Scope & Content:
This 14th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Heroides (The Heroines), a collection of 15 epistolary poems by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Ovid, Heroides. Decoration: Partial foliate border in colours and gol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Harley MS 2818

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2818
Title:
Bible, with the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-397r: Bible, with the Psalms (ff. 166r-185v) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 378r-397r). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*r-1*v, 397v-[398]verso: Practice sentences and pen trials in English and proverbs in Latin. f. 2*recto: A note: 'de excellenci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Harley MS 2986

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2986
Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-277r: Breviary ['Ordo Breviarii secundum consuetudinem curie romane']; with a Litany of Saints (ff. 61v-62v). Decoration: 2 large illuminated intials in colours and gold with acanthus extensions and bezants (ff. 7r, 159r). 1 large initial in blue with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. Harley MS 2987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2987
Title:
Martyrology, Franciscan use
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Calendar, with numerous entries now erased or emended. ff. 8r-82v: Martyrology of Franciscan use, with the heading 'Incipit martyrologium pro anni circulum. Secundum sanctam romanam curiam et secundum consuetudinem fratrum [?minorum (erased)]'; added obit in lower margin ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

16. Harley MS 3003

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3003
Title:
Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82r: Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2; with an index of contents (ff. 1r-2v), and contemporary glosses and notabilia in a cursive hand. The manuscript contains an addition: f. [i]verso: An inscription: 'Iste isidorus fuit ipse Scadij imperatoris et [...] mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 3059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3059
Title:
Collection of theological works by Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome and Augustine of Hippo; a treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:
A collection of works by Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033/4, d. 1109), Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), Jerome (d. 420), and Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). Compendium de epidemia, a treatise on plague compiled by the Paris medical faculty, has been added to the end of the volume, as w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

18. Harley MS 3289

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3289
Title:
Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho (On the Jugurthine War) and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy), the latter featuring a preface by the translator. Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Sallust, De bello Jugurtho, in Italian; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Harley MS 3568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3568
Title:
A collection of letters and orations by Italian humanists
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-68r: Antonio Beccadelli, Epistolae. f. 68r: Philippi Macedonum regis Epistola ad Aristotelem. ff. 68r-78r: Leonardo Bruni (Aretino), oration. ff. 78r-79v: Leonardo Bruni (Aretino), Letter to Johannes Marasius Siculus ff. 79v-80r: Pulex poeta de ortu et obitu hermaphrodit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1425-1463
Extent:

1 volume

20. Harley MS 3593

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3593
Title:
Lawrence of Aquilegia, Summa dictaminis and letter collection
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Summa dictaminis edita iuxta doctrinam Tullii (Summary of letter-writing, learned through the instruction of Tullius [Marcus Tullius Cicero]), a treatise on the ars dictaminis, the art of letter writing, written by the thirteenth-century Italian canon and teacher Law...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume