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4971. Harley MS 5437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5437
Title:
Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-96: Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis. Text omitted by the scribe on f. 90v was supplied by a late 14th-century reader on ff. 95v-96.14th- and 15th-century marginal notes. Decoration: Puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing in red and purple (f. 1r). Initials alte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4972. Harley MS 5438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5438
Title:
Florus, Epitome of Roman History; Cicero, Catilinarian Orations
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-163: Florus, Epitome of Roman History. pp. 165-173: Cicero, Catilinarian Orations, with a spurious response by Catiline. pp. 164, 174-78 are blank. Horizontal catchwords. Decoration: Partial white vine border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold (p. 1). 3 sma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4973. Harley MS 5439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5439
Title:
Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Divinae institutiones (The Divine Institutes), a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 350). Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones. f. 196v is blank. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4974. Harley MS 5440

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5440
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean de Vignay
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-82v: Jacobus de Cessolis [Jacopo da Cessole] (b. c. 1250, d. 1322), Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum; a translation in French out of Latin by Jean de Vignay (b. c. 1285, d. 1348), beginning: ‘A Tres noble et excellent prince Jehan de fran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4975. Harley MS 5441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5441
Title:
Albertanus Brixiensis, Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi and various theological treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a table of contents of the works contained in the manuscript in a hand contemporaneous with the rest of the manuscript. ff. 1r-147v: various theological treatises including Albertanus Brixiensis, Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi. Decoration: Numerous small initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4976. Harley MS 5442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5442
Title:
John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r–4r: Table to John Borough [John de Burgh]'s Pupilla oculi. ff. 5r–201v: John Borough [John de Burgh], Pupilla oculi. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Theological excerpt attributed to St Gregory the Great; added in the early 16th century. f. 1v (paper past...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4977. Harley MS 5443

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5443
Title:
Terence, Comedies
Scope & Content:
Collection of comedies by Terrence, with marginal and interlinear notes. ff. 39r-62v were added later and date from the 14th century and were written by more than one scribe (change of hands at ff. 47v-62v). Contents: ff. 1r-v: life of Terence. ff. 1v-13v: Terence, Andria. ff. 13v-26v: Teren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4978. Harley MS 5444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5444
Title:
Votive masses; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis; William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Jacobus de Lausanne, Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and Job
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts that were separately produced and joined together at a later point, possibly in the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) is a single booklet with votive masses that was commissioned by Alicia Lygh (d. in or after 1525) of Chippenham, Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-1503
Extent:
1 volume

4979. Harley MS 5449

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5449
Title:
Mishle Sendabar. משלי סנדבר
Scope & Content:
Language: Hebrew Ethical writing. Mishle Sendabar משלי סנדבר Note: There is a Latin note at the end, folio 65v-66r, copied from the handwriting of Gilbertus Gaulmin, and stating that the latter had translated the work into Latin and added notes. In the Latin account of the manuscript on the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1600-1699
Extent:
66 folios

4980. Harley MS 5454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5454
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). Mevlana Şahidi, or Şahidi Dede, whose given name was İbrahim, was born in Muğla in the province of Menteşe and entered...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1090
Extent:
1 text, 29 ff

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