Search

Place Northern Italy Level [40] File

21. Harley MS 3754

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3754
Title:
Collection of classical texts, including Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, with annotations by Petrarch
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Virgil, Bucolica. ff. 4v-14v: Virgil, Georgica. ff. 14v-61r: Virgil, Aeneid, with a verse preface. ff. 61v-101r: Lucan, De Bello Civili (On the Civil War) or Pharsalia. ff. 101r-120v: Statius, Thebaid, imperfect, comprising Bks. I-VI (up to l. 482). ff. 121r-155v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Harley MS 4090

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4090
Title:
Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De re uxoria, a treatise on marriage written by Francesco Barbaro (b. 1390, d. 1454), a Venetian politician, diplomat and humanist. The work was composed to celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo de Medici (b. c. 1395, d. 1440) and Ginevra Cavalcanti (b. 1397, d. 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

23. Harley MS 4740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4740
Title:
Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v is blank. ff. 2r-163v: Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti. ff. 164r-175v: an index for the text. Occasional contemporary marginal notes. Decoration: 1 marginal coloured pen drawing of a brazier with fruits (f. 2r). Large initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

24. Harley MS 5128

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5128
Title:
Dictionary of canon law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-438v: A dictionary of canon law, beginning: 'Quoniam memoria hominum labilis'. Decoration: 2 large initials in pink, green, and blue with floral and foliate motifs (ff. 1r, 53v). 1 large historiated initial in colours (f. 65v). 15 large initials in red, some with simple flor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

25. Harley MS 5210

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5210
Title:
Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-252v: Jacobus de Varagine [Voragine], Legenda aurea, beginning with an introduction: 'Universum tempus presentis vite in quatuor distinguitur [tempora] scilicet in tempus deviationis, renovationis sive revocationis, reconciliationis et peregrinationis'; followed by a table of c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

26. Harley MS 5429

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5429
Title:
Sallust, De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 2 large blue initials with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 21r). Initials in blue or red, usually alternating. Smaller initials in blue or red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

27. Harley MS 6504

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6504
Title:
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40r: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 40r: an inscription in a medieval hand on f. 40r: '[...] hic offert se et sivum librum Gulielmo ep[i]scop[o] nem[..]si[...]'. Numerous added annotations throughout, mainly in 15th-century h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 6814

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6814
Title:
Collection of sermons in Latin and French; Quaestiones problematicae; Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam; Catalogus librorum Sacrae canonicae scripturae veteris testamenti; collection of theological tracts from biblical excerpts; biblical proverbs in Middle English; Moralium dogma philosophorum; Aesop, Fabulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: A collection of sermons in Latin and French, written between 1650 and 1653. ff. 39v-40r: Quaestiones problematicae [inscribed on f. 39r: ‘in Sidney College’], written around the mid-16th century. ff. 40v-69r: Exemplar epistolae scriptae ad Anglum nobilem Catholicam. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1435-1653
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 7357

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7357
Title:
Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super Isagogen Porphyrii; Quaestiones super Praedicamenta Aristotelis; Quaestiones super Peri hermeneias Aristotelis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three works by Radulphus Brito (b. c. 1270, d. 1320), an influential grammarian and philosopher and one of the Modistae, based in Paris. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super Isagogen Prophyrii. ff. 41v-73v: Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super Pra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

30. Kings MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 17
Title:
Scholia on Pindar's Olympian and Pythian Odes
Scope & Content:
Scholia on Pindar's Olympian and Pythian Odes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume