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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2764
Title:: Tacitus, Annales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-168: Tacitus, Annales. The gold initial 'I'(n) on f. 1 is an addition, cut from another manuscript and pasted into the original white vine border. Originally, the sentence would have read: 'Nam Valerium Asiaticum, bis consulem, fuisse quondam adulterum ejus credidit…' (Tacitus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1452
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2829
Title:: Pauline Epistles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Pauline Epistles. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A table itemizing the Pauline Epistles; added in the 16th century. Decoration: Large initials in red with foliate motifs. Smaller initials in red (some oxidised). Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3139
Title:: Exodus, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-184v: Exodus, glossed, where ff. 1r-8r are a replacement quire made in Italy in the second quarter of the 2nd century. Decoration: 1 large white vine initial in colours (f. 1r). 14 small plain initials in red (ff. 61v, 83r, 85r (x6), 94v (x 4), 95r (x 2)).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3496
Title:: Petrarch, Trionfi
Scope & Content:: Contents: The foliation starts with f. 196, which is a paper flyleaf, and is labelled 'Harley MS 3496, art. 6 (spine, f. [i]).ff. 197-234: Petrarch, Trionfi, written in Florence c. 1480 by Nicolaus Mangona, according to de la Mare, 'New Research' (1985), and her unpublished notes at the Bodleia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3555
Title:: Petrarch, Rime
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-120: Petrarch, Rime. Decoration: 1 puzzle initial in red and blue; coat of arms in brown and red ink in the lower margin (f. 1r). Alternating blue initials with red penwork and red initials with mauve penwork.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3722
Title:: Petrarch, Africa
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-95r: Petrarch, Africa. f. 96v: incomplete inscription, 15th century. ff. 95v and 96r are blank. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing and 1 plain initial in red (f. 1r). Plain initials in red or blue, 1 with foliate extensions in brown ink (f. 17v). Capitals mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5268
Title:: Virgil, Aeneis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-203: Virgil, Aeneis, written by Bartolomeo Sanvito, perhaps for Evangelista Gonzaga (b. before 1440, d. 1492): his erased arms and offset of his initials in capital letters (ff. 1v, 2; see de la Mare and Nuvoloni 2009). ff. 54 and 71 are palimpsests. Decoration: 1 large and 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5269
Title:: Lucan, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Added list of dated events, starting with the year 1408, ending with the year 1423, and mentioning the Sforza. ff. 2-114: Lucan, Pharsalia. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with foliate and knotwork motifs, bezants, and heraldic devices in medallions (f. 2r). 9 in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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