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101. Harley MS 3531

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3531
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Corbaccio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Boccaccio's Corbaccio (The Crow), written around April 1448, from a copy written by Boccaccio. Contents: ff. 2r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Corbaccio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:
A paper codex

102. Harley MS 3545

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3545
Title:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-3v: List of chapters of the Legenda Aurea. ff. 4r-373v: Jacobus de Voragine [Varagine], Legenda Aurea. The manuscript contains a few other items: f. 1v: Offset of another unidentified Latin text. f. 1v: Note in Latin, partially legible, referring to 'in legenda sancti Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

103. Harley MS 3549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3549
Title:
History of Venice to 1439
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-123v: a history of Venice, up to the year 1439, in Italian, beginning, 'Segondo che trouo scripto in una et piu croniche dice &'. Decoration: Large initial in grey and red ink and 2 coloured initials in alternating red or grey (f. 1r). Spaces for initials left blank or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

104. Harley MS 3566

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3566
Title:
Italian translation of Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerario por las regiones subequinocciales; João Bermudes, description of Ethiopia; Life of Prospero Publicola Santacroce; history of the Confraternita della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*recto-3*verso: Index to Alessandro Geraldini's Itinerario por las regiones subequinocciales. ff. 4*recto-4*verso: Introduction by 'Il Cavalier Pompeo Mongallo da Lionessa della militia di Giesu Chr[ist]o'. ff. 1r-77v: Italian translation of Alessandro Geraldini, Itinerario por...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

105. Harley MS 3573

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3573
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta. Decoration: A drawing of a human face in the lower margin of f. 12r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

106. Harley MS 3576

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3576
Title:
Account of the families in Messina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Alphabetical index of family names. ff. 27r-228v: Account of the families in Messina; according to Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 43, the manuscript is entitled: 'Il Libro Famiglie degli de Messine'. This title was probably legible on the manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. Harley MS 3580

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3580
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-154v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 1*recto: Title inscriptions: '1557 Ovidio Methamorphoeos vulgare'; added in the 16th century. f. 1*recto: A Latin poem: 'Cur non omnes hunc Scrip. Libellum'; added in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

108. Harley MS 3581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3581
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Commedia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-226v: Dante Alighieri, Commedia:Inferno (ff. 2r-80v), Purgatorio (ff. 81v-152v); Paradiso (ff. 153r-226v). f. 226v: Colophon by Geri di Gherardo Risaliti, followed by two lines in Latin, and the Latin epitaph written by Bernardo Canaccio in 1366: 'Iura monarchiae superos Phleg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1464
Extent:
1 volume

109. Harley MS 3582

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3582
Title:
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Poetria nova (New poetry), an influential Latin textbook written in hexameter verse, which gives advice to future writers about the composition of poetry. The text is attributed to the Anglo-Norman poet Gualterus Anglicus (fl. 1175), but was in fact written by the gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

110. Harley MS 3653

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3653
Title:
Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: The Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 65r-66r: Notes in multiple (?) 15th-century hands, including inscriptions in Italian ('pieruccino presto […]'). f. 65v: Short texts, beginning: 'Hic est martir chananeus'; 'Et Chr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1100 - c 1175
Extent:
1 volume