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161. Harley MS 5376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5376
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; Paradoxica stoicorum; De senectute
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Cicero, De amicitia (On friendship). ff. 23r-33v: Cicero, Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic paradoxes). ff. 34r-53v: Cicero, De senectute (On old age). ff. 1*v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

162. Harley MS 5421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5421
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Bucolica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Bucolica, a series of allegorical eclogues on contemporary events, written by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375). Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Boccaccio, Bucolica. Decoration: 1 large blue initial with red penwork decoration (f. 1r). Nume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1408
Extent:
1 volume

163. Harley MS 5439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5439
Title:
Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Divinae institutiones (The Divine Institutes), a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 350). Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones. f. 196v is blank. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

164. Harley MS 7182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7182
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:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

165. MS Facsimile 207

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Facsimile 207
Title:
Scope & Content:
ILLUMINATED MSS.: Florence. Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts. Fifty plates from MSS. in the R. Medicean Laurentian Library. With preface and illustrative notes by Dr. Guido Biagi. Miniatures of various schools, 6th-15th centt. 1914. Florence, Italy: Illuminated MSS. in the Laurentian ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

166. Photo 355/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1
Title:
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

167. Photo 355/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1
Title:
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

168. Seal XXXV.211

Reference (shelfmark):
Seal XXXV.211
Title:
Scope & Content:
Official Seal of the Quatuor Boni Viri of Florence, xiiith or xivth cent. Florence, Italy: Recent impression of the official Seal of the Quatuor Boni Viri: xiiith or xivth cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

169. Sloane MS 791

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 791
Title:
Scope & Content:
Richard Smith, Secondary of the Poultry Compter, London: Treatises on the Plague; translated by: 1665. Writers of Manuscripts: Smith (Richard), Secondary of the Compter. includes: ff. 2-13 b André Rivet, Rector of the College at Breda: Epistle to a friend on flight from the Plague: 1636.: Tra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
1 item

170. Sloane MS 836

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 836
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sir Edward Sherburne, Clerk of the Ordnance: Commonplace-books: 17th cent. includes: ff. 8-17 b, 29-31 Court of Rome: Index of famous MSS. in the great libraries at: 17th cent. f. 14 b Joseph Sikes: Royal letter to the Archbishop of York, touching the presentation of, to Kerkelitaton Church: [...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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