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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Italy

151. Harley MS 5411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5411
Title:
Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum Fortuna aut Virtute; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad Meretrices Romanas
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ff. 24v-51v: Plutarch, Vita Pyrrhi. ff. 52r-69v: Plutarch, Vita Quinti Sertorii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

152. Harley MS 5418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5418
Title:
Brut Chronicle; Chronicon Angliae ab anno 75 ad 1192; Mirabilia Angliae; a fragmentary political work; Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo, De bello italico adversus Gotos
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 1r-82v) was written in England in the 4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 83r-105v) may have been written in Italy in the 17th century. Part 3 (ff. 106r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

153. Harley MS 5423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5423
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

154. Harley MS 5426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5426
Title:
Thomas Waleys, Commentary on Augustine's De Civitate Dei; table of contents and index for Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; table of contents for Paterius, Liber de expositioneveteris ac novi testamenti
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-106; and ff. 107-213) that were separately produced, and joined together at a later stage, probably in the Harleian library. The first part of the manuscript appears to have been written in an Italian script; the second part was most likely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

155. Harley MS 5427

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5427
Title:
Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (Elegy of Lady Fiammetta), a work by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. The text is written in the form of a first-person monologue and details the love of its protagonist the Lady Fiam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

156. Harley MS 5428

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5428
Title:
Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b, 103, d. 43 BC): his Orationes (Speeches) and Philippicae (Philippics). The text features accompanying marginalia in Italian hands that have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries (Watson, Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469-1470
Extent:
1 volume

157. Harley MS 5747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5747
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, and Paradoxica Stoicorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three works of the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC): De Amicitia (On Friendship), De Senectute (On Old Age), and Paradoxica Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). Contents: ff. 1r-21v: Cicero, De Amicitia; ff. 22r-40v: Cicero, De Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

158. Harley MS 6327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6327
Title:
Cicero, Academica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Academica, an epistemological work by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Cicero, Academica priora; ff. 7r-34v: Cicero, Academica posteriora. Decoration: Inhabited initials in colours and go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

159. Harley MS 6328

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6328
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale Puerorum, with gloss commentary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Gloss to the Doctrinale Puerorum. f. 2v: Short tracts, including a list of the Nine Orders of Angels; a poem for calculating the calends on each month, beginning: 'Sex Maius nonas, October, Julius, et Mars / Quattuor at reliqui: tenet ydus quilibet octo'; and Colucius Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

160. Harley MS 6329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6329
Title:
Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Marginal notes on Victorinus; added in the 15th century. f. i verso: Title inscription in pencil: 'Fabii Victorini Commentari in M. T. Ciceronis Rhetor[…]s'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-1458
Extent:
1 volume