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4031. Harley MS 2586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2586
Title:
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova; Francesco Piccinini, Poetry collection dedicated to Antonius Astensis; Guarino da Verona, Epistolae; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Poetria nova of Geoffrey de Vinsauf (fl. 1200) and a poetry collection by Francesco Piccinini (fl. 15th century), who identifies himself as a ducal scribe and dedicates the work to Antonius Astensis. The volume also includes a number of letters by the Italian humanis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4032. Harley MS 3426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3426
Title:
Humanistic miscellany, including select lives from Plutarch's Parallel lives
Scope & Content:
A humanist anthology of classical and patristic Greek authors translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni. Contents: ff. 1r-134v: Select lives from Plutarch, Parallel lives, translated by Leonardo Bruni. ff. 1r-37r: Life of Antonius, with preface. ff. 37r-56v: Life of Pyrrhus. ff. 56v-73r: Lif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4033. Harley MS 6054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6054
Title:
Notebook of verse and prose
Scope & Content:
A quarto notebook of verse and prose in English, Latin and French, in various hands. Probably partly compiled by Edmund Killingworth of Winchester College and New College, Oxford (see Kelliher). The manuscript is made up of the remains of 2 notebooks. The first notebook (ff. 1-11) contains misce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4034. Harley MS 1037

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1037
Title:
Hugh Ripelin of Strassburg, Compendium veritatis theologicae; Summary of the Old Testament; Pope Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately, at different locations and at different times. Part 1 (ff. 1r-109v) is a copy of Hugh Ripelin's Compendium veritatis theologicae that was written in the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. 111r-134v) is a summary of the Old...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4035. Harley MS 4329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4329
Title:
Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus); Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute); Le livre de amitié (De amicitia); letter of Bernard of Clairvaux; hymn to the Virgin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus). ff. 30r-129v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute). ff. 130r-192v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1460
Extent:
1 volume

4036. Harley MS 5395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5395
Title:
Isaac the Syrian, Liber de contemptu mundi; Caesarius of Arles, Sermons; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini; James of Milan [Pseudo-Bonaventure], Stimulus amoris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: St Isaac the Syrian (fl. 7th century), Bishop of Nineveh, Liber de contemptu mundi; here entitled: ‘Liber ysaac abbatis syrie Sermo primus quomodo anima possit quiescere in deo que de accessu eius a deum qui creavit illam Et de contemptu mundi videlicet honoris divitiarum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4037. Harley MS 6577

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6577
Title:
Copia bulle indulgenciarum concessarum in festo corporis christi; Pseudo-Augustine, De visitatione infirmorum; Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam; Epistola beate marie ad sancti ignatium; Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae; Gregory the Great, De cura pastoralis; Bona Expositio Orationis Dominicae; Divisio Symboli Apostoli; Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Gregory the Great, Homilies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), De visitatione infirmorum [here entitled: ‘de consolatione infirmorum’] (On the Visitation of the Sick). f. 46r: A letter of St Ignatius to the Virgin Mary and her reply (‘Epistola sancti Ignatii ad mariam Christiferam’; ‘Epistola beat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1454
Extent:

1 volume

4038. Harley MS 280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 280
Title:
A collection of miscellaneous tracts, including accounts of the naval expeditions of Sir Francis Drake and Sir George Clifford
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: Added pen-trials. f. 1*v: A note by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) concerning the first item in the manuscript (ff. 1r-30v); dated 1637. ff. 1r-30v: A collection of notes made by Mr Paul D'Ewes on sermons preached by a certain Mr Chatterton, living in Cambridge. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

4039. Harley MS 2247

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2247
Title:
Sermons in Middle English
Scope & Content:
Sermons. Marginal notes in Latin are in a number of hands, principally that of the main scribe. One English note (f. 1v) is in the hand of a reader. Frequent underlining within the text, probably by the scribe, highlights quotations and important names. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-2r): First Sunday...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4040. Harley MS 4114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4114
Title:
Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicine
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on the Canon Medicine, Book 3, Fen iv-vi by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in its Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1486
Extent:

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