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4351. Harley MS 3991

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3991
Title:
Verse miscellany of songs, poems and drama
Scope & Content:
A quarto verse miscellany in several hands, including poems, songs and extracts from plays by various authors, many anonymous. The volume was once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), and f. 1r contains an ownership inscription by Robert Harley: ‘Oxford. B. H. bought in the Rawlinsons sale’. C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4352. Harley MS 3747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3747
Title:
Giovanni Garzoni of Bologna, Practica medicinae secundum modum Avicennae, and other medical treatises
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical lectures, known as the Practica medicinae (The Practice of Medicine), composed by the physician and humanist Giovanni Garzoni of Bologna (b. 1419, d. 1506), probably between 1465 and 1471. The volume also includes a number of shorter medical texts...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:
1 volume

4353. Harley MS 485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 485
Title:
Collection of theological works, including the Speculum peccatoris; Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis, De sacramentis christianae fidei, and De virtute orandi; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon on Canticle of Canticles; John Chrystostom, Sermo de poenitentia; Peter of Blois, De duodecim utilitatibus tribulationis; Guigo II, Scala claustralium; Legend of Pachomius; Tripoli Prophecy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Speculum peccatoris. ff. 8v-16r: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion. ff. 16r-22r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De laude caritatis. ff. 22r-24r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De sacramentis christianae fidei. ff. 24r-26v: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo super illum locum in Cantico: 'Ecce ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4354. Harley MS 2253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2253
Title:
Henri d'Acre, Miscellany of secular and religious lyrics (also known as the 'Harley Lyrics'), including King Horn and the Follies of Fashion, and Psalms listed for recitation at certain times (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript divides in two parts. Part I (ff. 1r-48v) includes a collection of hagiographical texts in Anglo-Norman French. Part II (ff. 49r-140v and 142r-142v, except for folio 52v) was written in c. 1330-1340 by the so-called 'Harley scribe' and contains a miscellany of texts including secu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4355. Harley MS 3444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3444
Title:
Miles Huggarde, ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ…was banished out of this realme’
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Miles Huggarde (fl. 1533–1557), poet and religious polemicist. Titled ‘A treatise declaring howe Christ by perverse preachyng was banished out of this realme, and howe it hath pleased God to bryng Christ home againe by Mary our moost gracious Quene’. With a dedicatory verse epistle ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
July 1553-July 1554
Extent:

1 volume

4356. Harley MS 523

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 523
Title:
Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:
Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1616
Extent:
1 volume

4357. Harley MS 6345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6345
Title:
Copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–216v: A copybook of Cardinal Wolsey's letters. It also includes a copy of Princess Mary's confession (ff. 211r–v) along with unrelated material from the 17th century. f. 1*r: Note about Lady De La Warr's ownership of the volume, with the original ownership note pasted on. f. 5*v: The b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1627
Extent:
1 volume

4358. Harley MS 1319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1319
Title:
Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Scope & Content:
La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (ff. 1r-78v). Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (ff. 79r-80v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1401-1767
Extent:

1 volume

4359. Harley MS 2620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2620
Title:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two abridged version of Livy's Ab urbe condita: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (ff. 1r-43r); and the so-called Periochae, a list of contents of T. Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8 (ff. 43r-46r). Decoration: Initials originally in red and capital letters highl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

4360. Harley MS 2724

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2724
Title:
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Works, with added texts regarding Horace's poetry and life
Scope & Content:
Six works by the Roman poet Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace): ff. 2r-46r: Carmina. ff. 47r-54v: Ars Poetica. ff. 55r-66r: Epodae. ff. 66r-67r: Carmen saeculare. ff. 67v-94v: Epistulae. ff. 94v-130r Sermones. ff. 130r-130v: Vita Horatii attributed to Helenius Acro, and Servius, De metris Horat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

1 volume

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