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3561. Harley MS 5292

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5292
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitoma de Tito Livio (Epitomy of Titus Livy), attributed to the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus (b. c. 74, d. 130). The Latin work is principally based on Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Founding of the City), a history of ancient Rome written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3562. Harley MS 5293

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5293
Title:
Pseudo-John of Damascus, Baarlam et Josaphat
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Pseudo-John of Damascus, Baarlam et Josaphat; imperfect. Decoration: Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour or in both colours. Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked with red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3563. Harley MS 5294

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5294
Title:
Pharmacopeial compilation
Scope & Content:
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The manuscript is a compilation of late antique and early medieval pharmacopeial texts. Contents as follows: 1. Notes on humours, partly in figures of division (f. 1r); 2. Table of contents relating to the Pseudo-Apuleius' herbal, ff. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3564. Harley MS 5295

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5295
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with interlace and white vine decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 4v (with purple pen-flourishing), 44r, 46r, 107r, 110r). C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3565. Harley MS 5296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5296
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-100: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. It seems that the text was left unfinished in the 12th century (interrupted in the middle of Book 11) and only completed in the late 15th century in a humanistic hand trying to imitate the earlier script (ff. 86v-100). Numerous added ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3566. Harley MS 5297

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5297
Title:
Description of Near East, Middle East, and Asia, in French
Scope & Content:
Description of near East, Asia Minor, Greece and Mediterranean Islands, Asia Minor and Middle East, China, East Indies, Isles de l’archipelago de St Laurens aux Indes, and Tartary. With extracts from published accounts. ff. 1-23 written in two different hands. Text incomplete: Lead words for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3567. Harley MS 5298

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5298
Title:
Form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in Latin, French and Spanish
Scope & Content:
Manuscript form of admission into the Order of the Golden Fleece in three languages, with printed initials (rubricated and painted in gold leaf), ornaments and heraldic devices (ff. 2v, 11v, 17r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3568. Harley MS 5299

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5299
Title:
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (published in its complete form in 1532); French translation by 'Helye Bonnet' of the first five books; dedicated to the ‘Dauphin’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 2r, 72v, 73r: Inscriptions of numbers (possibly a cyp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1532-c 1540
Extent:
1 volume

3569. Harley MS 5300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5300
Title:
Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62). The manuscript was perhaps made at the same workshop and by the same scribe as Harley MS 4856, which contains a copy of Vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3570. Harley MS 5301

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5301
Title:
Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges (Statutes and Armorial of the Round Table of Bourges). A few ruled leaves have been left blank after f. 15 to enter the names of future members of the Round Table with the date of their admission into the ord...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1486-1533
Extent:
1 volume

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