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3921. Harley MS 3259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3259
Title:
Werner Rolevinck, Paradisus conscientiae; Gerard Zerbolt de Zutphen, De spiritualibus ascensionibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A note on Werner Rolevinck, beginning: 'Frater Werneus Rolevinck de Laer nacione Theutonicus patria Westphalus Ordinis Cartusiensium domus sancte Barbare in Colonia'. f. 1v: Theological diagram with definitions and categories of 'Caritas'. ff. 1v-122r: Werner Rolevinck, Par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1484-1485
Extent:
1 volume

3922. Harley MS 4751

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4751
Title:
A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3923. Harley MS 3745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3745
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany containing Latin translations of medical treatises originally written in Arabic: 1. Pseudo-Serapion (Ibn Wāfid), Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus (ff. 1r-74r); 2. Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae (ff. 75r-158v); 3. Pseudo-Mesue, C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

190 folios.

3924. Harley MS 1245

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1245
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes; Defence of Holy Church
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes [Books 1-9], imperfect; an English translation of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous Men’). ff. 182v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3925. Harley MS 1251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1251
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('Hours of Eleanor Worcester')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: Added paper fragment of a printed 15th- or 16th-century book concerning canon law, inscribed on the recto with a book curse in Middle English verse, ‘Thys boke ys one and godes kors ys anoder they that take the ton god gef them the toder’ (DIMEV no. 5660-3), late-15th/16th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

3926. Harley MS 2685

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2685
Title:
Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Mythologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and 10th-century interlinear and marginal glosses. ff. 24r-35v: Fulgentius Mythographus (fl. 500), Mythologiae (Mythologies), preceded by capitula (f. 24r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3927. Harley MS 3390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3390
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, translated into Italian by Dante Popoleschi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of an Italian translation of Suetonius' De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), made by Dante Popoleschi (fl. 2nd decade of the 16th century). The text is supplemented with a glossary, containing definitions of classical terms. The work is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century (between 1515 and 1547)
Extent:
1 volume

3928. Harley MS 3481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3481
Title:
Plato, Select works in the Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino
Scope & Content:
A deluxe copy of Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation of Plato's select dialogues< copied for Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples. Contents: f. 1: A parchment flyleaf. f. 2r: Naldus, Naldius (b. 1439, d. 1513), Epigram on Plato, begins 'Cum Deus aethereis hunc mittere vellet...'. ff. 2v-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1491-1493
Extent:
1 volume

3929. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3930. Harley MS 488

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 488
Title:
Robertus de Tumbalena, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52r: Robertus de Tumbalena (Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St Vigor of Bayeux), Commentary on the Song of Songs. ff. 52r-84r: Rule of St Benedict Decoration: 1 initial in gold (f. 1r). 1 initial in green with penwork decoration in green and red (f. 54v). Some large and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

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