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3251. Harley MS 4719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4719
Title:
Hagiographies
Scope & Content:
A collection of hagiographies, mostly of early saints, particularly those of Egypt and the Middle East. Contents: f. 1r: doodles of faces and erased ownership inscriptions. ff. 1v-2r: table of contents. ff. 3r-39v: Vitae monachorum aegyptiorum (Lives of the Egyptian Monks). ff. 40r-65v: Pal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3252. Harley MS 4720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4720
Title:
Collections of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-69v: Collection of medical recipes in Latin and English; written in the 16th or 17th century. ff. 70r-71v, 73r-74v: Alphabetical indices of subjects. ff. 75r-75v: A fragment of a work on ‘Arithmaticke’ in English; written in the 17th century. ff 76rv: Collection of medic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3253. Harley MS 4722

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4722
Title:
Commentary on the Institutiones Justiniani
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-359r: Commentary on the Institutiones Justiniani (Institutes of Justinian); with the colophon: 'finis coronat opus / labor elapsus est victoria parta - Anno Domini nostril 1587 22 Die Augusti horas 5a'. ff. 360r-370v: Alphabetical subject index, entitled: 'Index seu series ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

3254. Harley MS 4725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4725
Title:
A theological miscellany including Usuard's Martyrology
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite codex comprising 8 parts made in different periods of time between the 12th and 14th century and assembled together at a later date. Parts 1-6 formed one volume some time at the beginning of the 15th century when the the table of contents was added (f. 2*v). Part 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3255. Harley MS 4731

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4731
Title:
Treatise on the power of the Church
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-120v: Treatise on the power of the Church, anonymous and untitled; featuring citations of the Church Fathers throughout. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1v: Planetary symbols and signs of the Zodiac; added in the 16th century. f. 1v: 'Anno domini 1558 .8. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3256. Harley MS 4733

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4733
Title:
Miscellany of Middle English verse containing 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major' by Benedict Burgh, 'Proverbs of Old Philosophers' and 'Destruction of Jerusalem' ('Titus and Vespasian')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 3r-30r): 'Parvus Cato' and 'Cato Major': the Disticha Catonis, translated into English verse by Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483). See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 854 and 3955. For an edition of the Benedict Burgh translation, see Fumio Kuriyagawa, Paruus Cato Magnus Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3257. Harley MS 4735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4735
Title:
Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
Scope & Content:
Contents: A commentary on Aristotle's Physica (ff. 1r-74v); Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates (ff. 75r-78r). Decoration: Initial in red at the beginning of the book 1. Space left for initials at the beginning of other books and Nicolaus Lakmann's Formalitates. Paraphs in red and first letters ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3258. 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

3259. Harley MS 4740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4740
Title:
Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v is blank. ff. 2r-163v: Bindo Guerri da Siena, Distinctiones exemplorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti. ff. 164r-175v: an index for the text. Occasional contemporary marginal notes. Decoration: 1 marginal coloured pen drawing of a brazier with fruits (f. 2r). Large initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3260. Harley MS 4742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4742
Title:
Legal treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'. ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588-1589
Extent:
1 volume

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