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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5242
Title:: Chansons for three voices
Scope & Content:: Chansons, for 3 voices (with one exception), in parts, with illuminated initials and occasionally an illuminated border in which occur the letters F F {[Françoise de Foix.]} (Françoise, to whom several of the verses are addressed), and a monogram, probably intended for M A M I E. The only compose...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (48 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5244
Title:: Haly Abenragel, De Judiciis Astrorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-411r: Haly Abenragel [Abū l-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Abī l-Rijāl al-Shaybani], De Judiciis Astrorum. Decoration: 2 large blue and gold puzzle initial with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 97v). 3 small gold initial in a red frame (ff. 130r, 288r, 346r). 1 large blue and red puzzle initi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5246
Title:: Sextus Propertius, Monobiblos
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-86v: Sextus Propertius [here referred to as ‘Aurelius Propertius Nauta’], Monobiblos; ending with the colophon: 'Hoc tibi sume pater transcriptum Paule volumen / Quod tibi perpetuum nostri fore pignus amoris / Obsecro materia quando sunt vatis erotes / [...] Amor amonia vincit...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5247
Title:: An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Miscellaneous notes and sayings in English or Latin. ff. 4r-33v: ‘A Briefe Treatise of Oathes exacted by Ordinances and Ecclesiastical Judges to answer generally to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleaseth them to propound and of their forced and constrayned oathe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5248
Title:: Augustine, De musica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-121v: Augustine, De musica (On Music). ff. 122r-127v: Horace, poems. ff. 127v-133v: Unidentified text on classical poetry. Possibly the hand of Leonardo Giustiniani of Venice, according to Albinia de la Mare (see Watson 1979). ff. 3v and 133v are blank. Decoration: White v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1423
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5249
Title:: Processional
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70v: A processional with musical notation. Decoration: A small initial in gold with red and blue frame and half-border, partially gilded (f. 53v). Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5251
Title:: Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5254
Title:: Notes and commentary on Grotius De Jure Belli ac Pacis. Part 3
Scope & Content:: Manuscript notes and commentary on Hugo Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace). Third and last of three volumes with continuous original foliation (the others are Harley MS 5057 and Harley MS 1838). f. 1: ‘Notae et Scholia in Hugonem Grotium de Jure Belli & Pacis. Par...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5255
Title:: Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c 1467
Extent:: 1 volume

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