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4941. Harley MS 5411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5411
Title:
Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum Fortuna aut Virtute; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad Meretrices Romanas
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ff. 24v-51v: Plutarch, Vita Pyrrhi. ff. 52r-69v: Plutarch, Vita Quinti Sertorii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4942. Harley MS 5412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5412
Title:
Sallust, Catiline
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-56: Sallust, Catiline. This is a 12th-century copy, with the beginning (f. 1-1v) and end (ff. 49r-56v) supplied by the 15th-century scribe of Harley MS 2648, which is a copy of Juvenal's Satires written in 1410, according to de la Mare, 'Humanistic' (1977).There are also distin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4943. Harley MS 5413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5413
Title:
Collection of Horace’s works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: ownership inscription, Claudius Houssardus, 15th century. ff. 2r-73v: Horace, Odes. ff. 73v-88r: Horace, Epodes. ff. 88v-90r: Horace, Carmen Saeculare (Worldly Song). ff. 90r-101r: Horace, Ars Poetica (The Poetic Art). ff. 101r-149v: Horace, Satirae (The Satires), glossed. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4944. Harley MS 5414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5414
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century - 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4945. Harley MS 5415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5415
Title:
Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter. For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1463-c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

4946. Harley MS 5417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5417
Title:
Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4947. Harley MS 5418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5418
Title:
Brut Chronicle; Chronicon Angliae ab anno 75 ad 1192; Mirabilia Angliae; a fragmentary political work; Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo, De bello italico adversus Gotos
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 1r-82v) was written in England in the 4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 83r-105v) may have been written in Italy in the 17th century. Part 3 (ff. 106r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4948. Harley MS 5421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5421
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Bucolica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Bucolica, a series of allegorical eclogues on contemporary events, written by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375). Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Boccaccio, Bucolica. Decoration: 1 large blue initial with red penwork decoration (f. 1r). Nume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1408
Extent:
1 volume

4949. Harley MS 5423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5423
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4950. Harley MS 5425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5425
Title:
Ars Commentata (Galen, Commentaries on the Ars Medicinae)
Scope & Content:
Ars Commentata, or Galen's commentaries on the Ars Medicinae. An early copy of the collection of medical texts and commentaries generally known as the Ars Commentata that was put together around 1250 as part of the curriculum for medical teaching at university. The manuscript was written in Pari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

175 folios.

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