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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3432
Title:: The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3433
Title:: Verse treatises on natural philosophy entitled De principiis rerum naturalium and De rerum proprietatibus; Raffaello Maffei, Summary of Plato's Leges and Epinomis; Raffaello Maffei, Commentariorum urbanorum octo et triginta libri (extracts)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-43v: The first part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 44r-88v: The second part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'Secunda pars huius tertie pars De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 89r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3437
Title:: William Teshe, Poem on the Order of the Garter for Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:: Contents: William Teshe, Verses on the Mottoes of the Queen, sixteen of the Knights and the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, 1582 [presentation copy for Queen Elizabeth I]. Decoration: Coats of arms of the members, in colours and gold surrounded by the garter and combined with the Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1582
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3438
Title:: Bible, including the Psalms
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two parts. The larger part appears to have been written around 1225 (written above the top line), but the first quire (ff. 1-5) was probably added in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century (written below the top line and the flourishings include 'J-borders'). Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3486
Title:: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-177v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes. An English translation (with headers in Latin) of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, based on the French translation by Laurent de Premierfait; imperfect (for missing leaves, see Lydgate's Fall of Princes, ed. by Bergen,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3490
Title:: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum; John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum Religiosorum. ff. 8r-215v: John Gower, Confessio Amantis ['The Rede Boarstall Gower']; imperfect. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold combined with a partial foliate bar border with acanthus leaves and feathering including a diffe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1444
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3504
Title:: Nicholas Upton, De officio militari; on the manner and form of keeping of Parliament; tracts on the baptism, coronation and consecration of kings and queens; Liber Armorum; account of the funeral procession of King Henry VII; (?)John Skelton, Verses presented to Henry VII on the feast of St George
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-8v: 'A Table declaringe the Contents of this Booke'. ff. 9r-198r: Nicholas Upton, De officio militari, here entitled: 'Tractatus de Armis Nic: Upton etc'; 'beginning: 'Summum opificem alpha et oo in essentia unum et trinum in personis'; consisting of 4 books entitled: 'De Col...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3509
Title:: Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3537
Title:: Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-197v: Anonymous collection of sermons; imperfect at the beginning and end. Decoration: Rubrics and paragraph signs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3590
Title:: Proceedings of the Council of Constance, 1414-1418
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Table of contents. ff. 12r-415v: The proceedings of the Council of Constance (1414-1418), beginning: 'Nos omnes et singuli Episcopi, Presbiteri, et Diaconi sancte Romane ecclesie Cardinales insimul congregati in Civitate Pisarum pro scismatis extrepacione et unitate in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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