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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3469
Title:: Splendor Solis
Scope & Content:: Content: The manuscript contains the alchemical treatise Splendor Solis. Decoration: 22 full page miniatures of alchemical subjects in colours and gold with full borders. Very large calligraphic initials in gold. Capitals marked in gold. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 2r: The A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis; two leaves from a gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]. ff. 22v-24v: ? Prosper or Paulinus of Nola, Poema coniugis ad uxorem; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 531]. ff. 25r-53r: Isidore of Sevill...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 975-1050
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3923
Title:: Collection of theological texts including Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Institutione Novitiorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Pseudo-Augustine, De Conflictu Vitiorum. ff. 4r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Spiritu et Anima. ff. 11r-17r: Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job. ff. 17r-24v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes. ff. 25r-36r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Institutione Novitiorum. ff. 36r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5204
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; with added Latin verses by Petrarch
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio), the sixth book of De re publica by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). It is followed by a commentary on the text by the Roman author Macrobius. The volume features marginal an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3949
Title:: Collection of Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript, the first part of which (ff. 1-71) contains a humanistic miscellany comprising Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts, the second (ff. 72-103) preserves humanist Latin translations of Greek works relating to Classical education. Contents: ff. 1r-69v: written by Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1430-1455
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2652
Title:: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2716
Title:: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem; Cicero, Pro Marcello; De Officiis; Pro Ligario
Scope & Content:: This codex is composite and made up of two separate manuscripts, both made in Western Germany during the last quarter of the 10th century. The first manuscript comprises ff. 1-33 and 75-77. The second comprises ff. 34-74. Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Catiline Oration...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4978
Title:: St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4373
Title:: Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 6 to 9
Scope & Content:: Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, books 6-9. Simon de Hesdin, Knight Hospitaller of Jerusalem and Master of Theology (d. 1383), according to the rubric on f. 11v, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c. 1460-1487
Extent:: A parchment codex, 153 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2385
Title:: Middle English treatises and Latin sermons; Richard of Saint-Victor, Epistola ad Severinum de Caritate; Vita Secundi philosophi; a collection of miracles and exempla
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises five different parts that were produced separately in England. Part 1 (ff. 2r-8v) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. 11r-25v) was written around the mid or in the second half of the 15th century. Parts 3 (ff. 26r-31v) and 4 (ff. 32r-36v)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1250-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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