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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3345/1
Title:: Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), volume one
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*recto-240v: Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem [Knights Hospitaller] in the time of Grand Master Claude de la Sengle (r. 1553-1557), entitled: 'Statuta Ordini Domus Hospitalis Hierusalem'. Edited by Didacus Rodiguez [probably copied from th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1556
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3345/2
Title:: Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), volume two
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 241r-488v: Statutes of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem [Knights Hospitaller] in the time of Grand Master Claude de la Sengle (r. 1553-1557). Edited by Didacus Rodiguez [probably copied from the 1556 publication of the same work]. Written in Latin, and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1556
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3349
Title:: French prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Collection of prayers, entitled: 'Heures Nouvelles'; containing prayers to Christ, the King, a confessional formula ('La Confession des Pechez'), Litany of the Holy Name ('Les Litanies du Saint Nom de Iesus'), evening prayers ('Prieres du Soir'), Litany of the Virgin Mary ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3390
Title:: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, translated into Italian by Dante Popoleschi
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of an Italian translation of Suetonius' De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), made by Dante Popoleschi (fl. 2nd decade of the 16th century). The text is supplemented with a glossary, containing definitions of classical terms. The work is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century (between 1515 and 1547)
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3441
Title:: Justinian, Codex
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most import...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

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