Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6519
Title:: Poggio Bracciolini, De Nobilitate Vera
Scope & Content:: This manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De Nobilitate Vera was completed on 27 September 1446 (f. 18v). Contents: Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459): De Nobilitate Vera (About True Nobility).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1446
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6522
Title:: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, Orationes in Catilinam, De senectute, De amicitia and Paradoxa stoicorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-67v: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, written by Jean Blanchard, probably in 1463 (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979)). ff. 67v-85v: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam, written by Jean Blanchard in 1469. ff. 86r-105v: Cicero, De senectute. ff. 106r-12...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1463-1469
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6523
Title:: Textus Roffensis and Ælfric of Eynsham, Interrogationes Sigewoulfi Presbiteri, in modern facsimiles by Elizabeth Elstob
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two modern facsimiles of Textus Roffensis (The Tome of Rochester), an Old English legal text that survives in only a single manuscript (now Rochester Cathedral Library, MS. A.3.5), and Interrogationes Sigewulfi Presbiteri (Questions of Sigewulf the Priest), a vernacular ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6524
Title:: 151 Psalms
Scope & Content:: This volume contains interlinear Psalm translation according to Ibn al-Fadl’s Arabic revision and Latin glosses. It begins: ‘We begin by the help of God…to write the blessed psalms, which were spoken by the mouth of the Prophet David, peace be upon him, through the Holy Spirit’. Contents: 150 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: Codex, 201 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6525
Title:: Johannes Gallicus, Ritus canendi vetutissimus et novus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus (The oldest and the new custom of singing), a musical treatise concerning the teaching and performance of plainchant, written by the French humanist and musical theorist Johannes Gallicus (b. c. 1415, d. 147...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6526
Title:: Collection of grammatical works
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: 'The forme to construe' a sentence out of one language into another. ff. 2r-3r: 'Annotationes in Ciceronis officia'. ff. 4r-41v: 'Phrases ex Terentiij'; with English commentary; inscribed 'Andriae finis' on f. 24r. ff. 42r-43r: 'Annotationes de Fabula'. ff. 44r-45v: 'De a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531
Title:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley
Scope & Content:: Notebook of Humfrey Wanley, containing a Greek-Latin lexicon, a dictionary of mathematical terms, and miscellaneous notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6531, ff 3r-142r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Greek-Latin lexicon. Very few entries, taken only from Aristophanes and Isocrates.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: c 1683-1687
Extent:: 140 folios

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