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2. Harley MS 2548
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2548
- Title:
- Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Marcus Tullius Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium; epitaph of St Bernardino
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-76r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. ff. 77r-93r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium. f. 93v: Epitaph of St Bernardino. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 94v: An excerpt from Quintilian, beginning: 'Nempe enim in hoc plurimum laboris exhau...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1470
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Harley MS 2614
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2614
- Title:
- Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: The text written by written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis: colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r). Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers ff. 1r-3v: P...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Harley MS 2993
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2993
- Title:
- Roman martyrology; lectionary for the use of Crutched Friars; an astronomical treatise
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-86v: Roman martyrology (Martyrologium romanum); imperfect at the beginning. ff. 86v-88v: Lectionary for the use of Crutched Friars; imperfect at the end. ff. 89r-101v: Astronomical work, identified as 'Liber computi Magistri boni', including headings such as 'Tractatus de s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1437
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Harley MS 3393
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3393
- Title:
- Statutes of the Republic of Venice
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-148v: Statutes of the Republic of Venice in Latin and Italian, continued to c. 1581; with an index (ff. 140r-148v). Large initials with black cadels throughout. The title of the table of contents ('Repertorium') inscribed in gold on f. 140r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1580
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Harley MS 3395
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3395
- Title:
- Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as podestà and captain of Koper
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Giovanni Maria Contarini by the Venetian doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545-1553) in 1551. The text concerns Contarini's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the city of Koper, near Trieste (once part of Venetian Is...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1551
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Harley MS 3403
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3403
- Title:
- Commissione of the doge Leonardo Loredan to Francesco Barbarigo as podestà and captain of Feltre
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Francesco Barbarigo by the Venetian doge Leonardo Loredan (r. 1501-1521) in 1515. The text concerns Barbarigo's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the hilltop town of Feltre in Veneto, Italy. The binding of ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1515
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 3686
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3686
- Title:
- Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 3932
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3932
- Title:
- Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: Title-page, added in a post-medieval hand. ff. 2r-43v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). f. 44v: an added inscription in a 15th-century Italian hand. ff. 1v and 44r are ruled and unwritten. Decoration: White vine initial in colours and g...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 4950
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4950
- Title:
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutiones
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1v-217v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutiones. Decoration: Partial border and initial with foliate decoration in colours and gold, with two winged putti supporting a laurel medallion with arms in the bas-de-page (f. 2r). Initials in gold with foliate decoration...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume