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3531. Harley MS 5256

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5256
Title:
Loys Papon, Discours à Lesdiguières
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph copy of Discours à Lesdiguières, a poem written by Loys Papon (b. 1539, d. 1499), a French playwright and prior of Marcilly. It features a dedication (ff. 3r-4r) from Papon to a certain 'M de Lesdiguières', who can be identified as François de Bonne, (b. 1543, d. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1597
Extent:
1 volume

3532. Harley MS 5259

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5259
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de matrimonio (excerpts); allegorical tract on the Zodiac; tract on the lineage from David to Christ; The Life of St Katherine of Alexandria (Middle English)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-125v: Gesta Romanorum; featuring three Middle English couplets on f. 60v. f. 125v: A notes on the duty of confession, excerpted from the Summa de matrimonio (Compendium on Marriage) of Raymond of Peñafort. f. 125v: A Latin text on the allegorical meaning of the signs of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3533. Harley MS 5261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5261
Title:
Virgil, Bucolics, Georgica, Aeneid, and Epitaphs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18r: Virgil, Bucolics. ff. 18v-63r: Virgil, Georgica. ff. 63v-266v: Virgil, Aeneid. ff. 267r-268v: Virgil, Epitaphs. Vertical catchwords. Written by Johannes de Parma: signed in cypher substituting the vowels by the following consonants (ff. 63r, 266v). Decoration: Minia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3534. Harley MS 5262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5262
Title:
Henry of Settimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione (Elegy on varying fortune and the consolation of philosophy), written by the Italian poet Henricus Florintinus (fl. late 12th century), commonly known as Henry of Septimello. Contents: f. 1*v: an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3535. Harley MS 5263

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5263
Title:
Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula and Palladius, Opus agriculturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Pseudo-Ovid, De vetula (On the Old Woman), including the preface of ‘Leo the Protonotary’ (ff. 1r-v), glossed. ff. 50r-99v: Palladius, Opus agriculturae (The Work of Agriculture). f. 49v is blank. 1 parchment stub between f. 31 and 32 and between f. 90 and 91. Horziont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3536. Harley MS 5264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5264
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Officiis (On Duties), a treatise in three books, written by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The first folio of the manuscript is lacking. Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Cicero, De Officiis (On Duties), imperfect. Decoration: W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1441
Extent:
1 volume

3537. Harley MS 5265

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5265
Title:
Notes on law lectures; law treatises
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, consisting of one part (ff. 1-234) with lecture notes in French and English, produced in the 2nd half of the 16th century, and another part (ff. 235-264) with law texts in Latin, produced in the 13th century. Contents: ff. 1r-234v: A collection of no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3538. Harley MS 5266

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5266
Title:
Euclid, Elements
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Euclid's Elements, translated by Adelard of Bath, with an added table of contents (f. 127r) and a round map of the world (mappa mundi) (f. 128v). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours with a portrait of Euclid (f. 1r). 7 large initials in colours with birds or animals ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3539. Harley MS 5267/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5267/2
Title:
Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae; Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio and De diligendo Dei, and other works
Scope & Content:
This is the second volume of Harley MS 5267. The first volume is Harley MS 5267/1. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Pseudo-Sallust, In M. Tullium Ciceronem invectiva. ff. 7r-83v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae. ff. 84r-101v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libro arbitrio. ff. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3540. Harley MS 5268

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

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