Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Place: France - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3509
Title:: Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3520/1
Title:: Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions
Scope & Content:: The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts. Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written aro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400-c 1650
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3588
Title:: Collection of documents and tracts, mainly relating to Civil Law and taxation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Index digestorum, constitutionum, et institutionum juris civilis'. ff. 7r-37v: Index […] de Historia Jurie et […] Lib. 4. Institutionum'. ff. 38r-52r: 'Selectae iuris civilis decisiones'). ff. 53r-59r: 'De verborum [Juris] significatione'. ff. 60r-71r: 'De diversis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3635
Title:: Jacques Cujas, Commentarii in libros LXXVIII Pauli ad Edictum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-339v: Jacques Cujas [Jacobus Cujacius] (b. 1522, d. 1590), Commentarii in libros LXXVIII Pauli ad Edictum [? 1584]; anonymous and untitled [and previously unidentified], probably because an original title-page was removed (see paper stub before f. 1). The treatise ends imperfec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1584-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3664
Title:: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-109v: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law, with examples referring to French clerics, officials and churches (e.g. 'Episcopus Ambianensis', 'ecclesie Arelatensis', 'Thesaurario Lemovicensis'), beginning: 'Processus super executione sententiæ late in causa pecu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3707
Title:: Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia peregrinationis Ierosolimitane (with a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis); Petrus Alphonsi, Contra Judaeos dialogi
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Ierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) by Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1050, d. 1130), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil and bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne. The work presents a history of the events of the First Crusade in four books, beginnin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3723
Title:: Collection of works by Géraud de Frachet, including the Cronica ex diversis hystoriis abreviata, Chronica ordinis fratrum praedicatorum, and De decem Sybillis
Scope & Content:: This 14th-century manuscript contains a hitherto unidentified collection of the works of the Dominican friar Géraud [Gérald or Gérard] de Frachet [Geraldus de Fracheto] (b. 1205, d. 1271), historian and hagiographer of the Dominican Order. Among other works, it features his universal chronicle, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3762
Title:: Glossed Isaiah; Prologue to Daniel; Glossed Daniel
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Ysai[ah]'. ff. 1v-112r: Glossed Isaiah. ff. 113r-113v: Prologue to Daniel. ff. 114v-162r: Glossed Daniel. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 163v: A list of Syrian kings, beginning with Seleucus I Nicator, and a list of Egyptian kings, b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3859
Title:: Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Welsh
Date Range:: Early 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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