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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4929
Title:: Cicero, De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Cicero, De Officiis, books 1-3; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 26v-37v: Cicero, De Amicitia. ff. 38r-46r: Cicero, De Senectute. f. 46v: Index of chapters. Decoration: Large blue initials in frames of red penwork. Capitals (1-line) highlighted in red. Paraphs in re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4930
Title:: The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4931
Title:: Composite volume of tracts and papers
Scope & Content:: Composite volume of prose and verse, state papers (chiefly 1640-1641), and parliamentary reports. In various hands. With an alphabetical index in a contemporary hand prefixed (ff. 1-6). Contents: f. 1: Miscellaneous epigrams from Latin authors and other sources. ff. 2-7r: Index to the volum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4932
Title:: A register of the transactions of the Privy Council of Scotland (1678-1682)
Scope & Content:: This item was transferred to the General Register House, Edinburgh, on 23 July 1910. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1812), p. 224, it is 'A Register of the Transactions of the Privy Council of Scotland, from the 11 of Sep. 1678 to Aug. 1 1682. A paper book; fairly...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Undetermined
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4937
Title:: Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-150v: Seneca, Tragoediae, with marginal glosses, dated to the early 15th century, possibly Venice, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Each tragedy is introduced by a prologue. f. 1r: Added post-medieval inscription. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4939
Title:: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-95r: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature with full foliate borders, in colours and gold (f. 1r) made around 1450 in Burgundy; 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1450-1517
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4940
Title:: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'amor
Scope & Content:: Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers, Breviari d'Amor. An encyclopedic work explaining how the world is an emanation of love, it consists of 34,550 lines in verse in the Occitan dialect composed between 1288 and 1292. Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures with fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 232 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4941
Title:: Papers relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and other churches in the City of London
Scope & Content:: A volume, containing manuscript and printed material, relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, and other churches in the City of London, after the Great Fire of London. Contents: ff. 1-19: ‘His Majesties Commission concerning the Reparation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Lond...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4943
Title:: Orders of the Privy Council, 1570-1580
Scope & Content:: Copies of orders of the Privy Council, principally between 1570 and 1580. Mainly letters from Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland. f. 1*r: Flyleaf containing pen-trials, notes in Latin and English, and two names: ‘Xtopher Troughton Julij 1624’; ‘Edw: Pynchon’. ff. 1r-14v: Two...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1570-1580
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4947
Title:: Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, De ira Dei, and De opificio Dei
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes works by Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 240, d. c. 320), early Christian author and advisor to emperor Constantine I, preceded by his short biography by Jerome: 1. Jerome, Vita Lactantii, excerpt from De viris illustribus, incipit: 'Firminus qui est Lactantius Arn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

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