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121. Harley MS 3993

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3993
Title:
Marco Girolamo Vida, De Bombyce; letters and poems of Antonio Beccadelli
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Marco Girolamo Vida (b. ? 1485, d. 1566), Bishop of Cremona, 'De Bombyce' [ad Isabellam Estensem Marchionissam Mantuae] from his De arte poetica (first published in 1527), entitled: 'Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonen: Canonici Regularis de Bombyce Libri Duo'; beginning: 'Dii ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1527-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

122. Harley MS 4079

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4079
Title:
Horace, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, and Epistolarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-73r: Horace, Odes. ff. 73r-86v: Horace, Epodes. ff. 86v-87v: Horace, Carmen Saeculare. ff. 88r-98v: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 98v: A title from Marcus Terentius Varro's Menippean Satires: 'Nescis quid vehat vesper'. f. 98v: Virgil, Moretum; imperfect. ff. 100r-129r: Hor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

123. Harley MS 4110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4110
Title:
Account of the city of Venice and coats of arms of its noble families
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-85r: Account of the city of Venice to the year 1381, with a list of its noble families. Followed by their coats of arms, painted in colours and accompanied by names and descriptions up to the family of Canabrii, originally in alphabetical order but now rearranged, written in I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

124. Harley MS 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4150
Title:
Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

125. Harley MS 4165

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4165
Title:
Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus; imperfect at the beginning due to missing folios, now opening with the line: 'quandoquidem amantes ut fui invicem fruantur contubernio studiose molitur'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [70e]recto: A single inscription: 'Busara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

126. Harley MS 4167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4167
Title:
Tommaso Campanella, La monarchia di Spagna
Scope & Content:
A copy of La monarchia di Spagna, which was written by the Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian Tommaso Campanella (b. 1568, d. 1639) in 1598, and contains advice for the King of Spain on how to attain universal monarchy of the world. Contents: ff. 1r-120v: Tommaso Campanella, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1600-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

127. Harley MS 4169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4169
Title:
Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Paradoxica stoicorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of three treatises by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): De Senectute (On Old Age), De Amicitia (On Friendship), and Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). The manuscript features added marginal annotations in Latin and Greek. Content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

128. Harley MS 4230

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4230
Title:
Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1591-1600
Extent:
1 volume

129. Harley MS 4352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4352
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini. ff. 39v-64r: Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis. ff. 65r-72v: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo. Decoration: Numerous large and smaller initials in gold with red out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

130. Harley MS 4737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4737
Title:
Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-56v: Formularius Instrumentorum; formulary for legal processes in four books (one of which is missing), beginning: 'De principio et forma instrumentorum'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r (lower margin): A practice alphabet; added in the later Middle Ages. f. 1r (parchm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1225-c 1275
Extent:
1 volume