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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3303
Title:: Pius II (Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a copy of the second recension of the Pentalogus of Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini (future Pope Pius II), a tract divided in fives fictitious dialogues between the poet (Piccolomini), the king (Frederick IV, King of the Germans, from 1452 Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3530
Title:: Collection of excerpts from St Jerome; Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia; Pope Pius II, De Roma; Pulcra dicta sanctorum; De consolatione et timoris penitentie; 'Master Frater Antonio', Sono li Dodeci Articuli de la fede nostra; Sono li Dieci Commandamenti de la lege Christiana Dati da Dio a Moises in suse el Monte Sinay; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola sancti Bernardi ad Raymundum militem de re familiari gubernanda; Peter Damian, De gloria paradisi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-83v: A collection of excerpts from various works of St Jerome, preceded by a table of contents; also including a letter on the death of Jerome attributed to Eusebius of Cremona; and the Life of St Malchus of Syria by Jerome. f. 83v: Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1463
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3976
Title:: Pius II, Cosmographia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Cosmographia, written by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (b. 1405, d. 1464), who became Pope Pius II in 1458. Contents: ff. 1r-183v: Pius II, Cosmographia. Decoration: 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold enclosing a portrait of Pope Pius II in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4392
Title:: Octavien de Saint-Gelais, l'Histoire d'Euralius et Lucresse (C.22.b.1.)
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 4392 is a printed book that was transferred to the Department of Printed Books in May 1867. It now has the shelfmark C.22.b.1. The book contains the only printed version on vellum of the French translation of the Historia de duobus amantibus (The Tale of Two Lovers), an epistolary nove...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1493
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913, ff 75r-81r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Pius II, Papal Bull. Inc. Misericordias domini quas in dies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 7 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913, ff 82r-91r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Pius II, Speech at the Congress of Mantua (1459). Inc. Cum in bellum hodie adversus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 10 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913, ff 114r-119v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Pius II, Papal Bull initiating the Congress of Mantua. Inc. Vocavit nos pius et misericors deus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 119 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6149
Title:: A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: c 1494
Extent:: 1 volume

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