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4091. Harley MS 4324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4324
Title:
Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 volume

4092. Harley MS 865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 865
Title:
Ambrose, De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis;Jerome, Contra Jovinianum; and other theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-4v: Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397), De Mysteriis (On Mysteries), beginning imperfectly due to the lack of the opening folio. ff. 4v-16v: Ambrose, De Sacramentis (On the Sacraments). ff. 16v-18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4093. Harley MS 2639

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2639
Title:
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De grammaticis et rhetoribus; Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two rhetorical works by Roman historians: De grammaticis et rhetoribus (On Grammarians and Rhetoricians) by Caius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122) and Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on oratory) by Publius Cornelius Tacitus (b. c. 56, d. c. 120)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1450-c. 1460 (before 1462)
Extent:
A parchment codex

4094. Harley MS 2691

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2691
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of works by the Italian humanist teacher, scholar, and translator Guarino da Verona (b. 1370, d. 1460), including his Latin translation of Pseudo-Plutarch's De liberis educandis, which he dedicated to his student Angelo Corbinelli (d. 1419). Contents: ff. 1r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4095. Harley MS 3943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3943
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4096. Harley MS 2998

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2998
Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, imperfect, including: ff. 1r-12: Calendar. ff. 13r-16v: Gospel excerpts. ff. 17r-44v: Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, wanting leaves after f. 44 including Compline; portions of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext and Vespers specific to a liturgical use now erased (ff. 17v, 18v-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

4097. Harley MS 3687

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3687
Title:
Bernard Gui, Works
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes works of Bernard Gui (b. 1261 or 1262, d. 1331), inquisitor of the Dominican order, possibly with the exception of the first text: 1. A chronicle (fragment?) , incipit: 'In primordio temporis ante omnem diem Deus pater in verbo per verbum suum fecit ex nichilo rerum omni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1350-c 1360
Extent:

Parchment codex.

4098. Harley MS 2889

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2889
Title:
Lectionary (the 'Siegburg Lectionary')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-4r: Prefatory images (see below). ff. 4v-75r: Lectionary for mass. ff. 75r-95v: The Common of Saints (ff. 75r-87v), with directions and lessons for mass (ff. 87v-93v); and readings for masses of the dead and for St Anno (ff. 94r-95v). ff. 96r-106r: Readings and responses for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4099. Harley MS 3499

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3499
Title:
'The State of Christendom'
Scope & Content:
An essay on Christendom, by an ‘exile’ (f. 2r). Printed in 1657 as ‘The State of Christendom’, attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and writer (1568-1639). Composed c. 1594, as indicated by references to King Philip II of Spain, the plot of Roderigo Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth I, her a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4100. Harley MS 3557

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3557
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, incipit: 'Carmina qui quendam studio florente', with marginal and interlinear glosses, including some in a humanistic cursive script identified with the hand of Pietro da Monagnana of Padua (see Hunt, 'Pietro da Montagnana', 1973-78). Decoration: 5 large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

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