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3651. Harley MS 5425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5425
Title:
Ars Commentata (Galen, Commentaries on the Ars Medicinae)
Scope & Content:
Ars Commentata, or Galen's commentaries on the Ars Medicinae. An early copy of the collection of medical texts and commentaries generally known as the Ars Commentata that was put together around 1250 as part of the curriculum for medical teaching at university. The manuscript was written in Pari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

175 folios.

3652. Harley MS 5426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5426
Title:
Thomas Waleys, Commentary on Augustine's De Civitate Dei; table of contents and index for Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; table of contents for Paterius, Liber de expositioneveteris ac novi testamenti
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-106; and ff. 107-213) that were separately produced, and joined together at a later stage, probably in the Harleian library. The first part of the manuscript appears to have been written in an Italian script; the second part was most likely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3653. Harley MS 5427

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5427
Title:
Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (Elegy of Lady Fiammetta), a work by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. The text is written in the form of a first-person monologue and details the love of its protagonist the Lady Fiam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3654. Harley MS 5428

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5428
Title:
Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b, 103, d. 43 BC): his Orationes (Speeches) and Philippicae (Philippics). The text features accompanying marginalia in Italian hands that have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries (Watson, Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469-1470
Extent:
1 volume

3655. Harley MS 5429

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5429
Title:
Sallust, De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 2 large blue initials with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 21r). Initials in blue or red, usually alternating. Smaller initials in blue or red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3656. Harley MS 5430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5430
Title:
English statutes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3*r-7*r: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 1r-4v: Magna Carta. ff. 4v-6r: The Charter of the Forest (1217). ff. 6r-12v: The Statute of Malborough (1267). ff. 12v-14r: The Statute of Merton (1236). ff. 14r-17r: The Statute of Gloucester (1278). ff. 17r-28r: Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3657. Harley MS 5431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5431
Title:
Rule of St Benedict; Various Theological Writings
Scope & Content:
This codex contains two main items. The first part is decorated copy of the Rule of St Benedict made in the late 10th or early 11th century. The second part consists of various theological tracts, including works by Bernard of Clairvaux and Guillelmus Peraldus, copied between the late 13th centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 13th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

3658. Harley MS 5432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5432
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-188: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. p. 189 is a ruled parchment leaf with an erased inscription. Decoration: Large initial in gold on a blue panel with foliate decoration, combined with a full border with flowers, cornucopias, candelabras, dragon heads and a defaced...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3659. Harley MS 5433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5433
Title:
Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-70: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis, written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1446
Extent:
1 volume

3660. Harley MS 5435

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5435
Title:
John de Burgh, Pupilla Oculi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-363v: John de Burgh, Pupilla Oculi; a reworking of the Oculus Sacerdotis of William of Pagula’; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-12v); and a prologue (ff. 13r-14v). The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1*recto: A (?) 17th-century note: ‘This MS. relates entirely to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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