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

61. Harley MS 3147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3147
Title:
Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae Institutiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-188r: Lactantius Firmianus (fl. 305–323), Divinae Institutiones. f. 188v: A passage from St Augustine, De Civitate Dei (Book XX), beginning: 'Nullus igitur vel negat vel dubitat per Christum Iesum tale quale'. Decoration: Spaces for initials have been left blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 3150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3150
Title:
Gilbert of Hoyland, Sermones in Canticum Salomonis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Sermones in Canticum Salomonis (Sermons on the Song of Songs), a collection of sermons written by Gilbert of Hoyland (d. 1172), abbot of Swineshead Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Lincolnshire. Gilbert wrote a total of 47 sermons on the biblical book, a continuation...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

63. Harley MS 3216

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3216
Title:
Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi; Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi; Bonaventure, De triplici via
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Capitula for Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi. ff. 5r-106v: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi. ff. 108r-108v: Capitula for the Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi. ff. 109v-179v: Libellus excerptorum et diversis operibus divi Hieronymi. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1454
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 3223

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3223
Title:
Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-123v: Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 2v: An Italian inscription, beginning: 'Se hai amicizi con alcuno, & aviene che cada in tentazione di fornicazione, porgeli la mano, e non l'abbando'; added in the 16th century. D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1478
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 3228

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3228
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-v: Table of contents. ff. 2r-223v: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 3238

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3238
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

67. Harley MS 3262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3262
Title:
Proclus, Platonic Theology; Pseudo-Bonaventure, Centiloquium; Bonaventure, De reductione artium ad theologiam
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-114v: Proclus, Platonic Theology; translated into Latin by the humanist Pietro Balbi [Petrus Balbus] (b. 1399, d. 1479), of Pisa. ff. 115r-161v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, Centiloquium. ff. 162r-165v: Bonaventure, De reductione artium ad theologiam. Decoration: 1 large red init...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 3264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3264
Title:
Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 3282

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3282
Title:
Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'. ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 3296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3296
Title:
Palladius, De re rustica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De re rustica (On Agriculture), a treatise by the Roman writer Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (fl. late 4th to early 5th century). The work gives detailed instructions for the typical activities on a Roman farm for each month of the year, starting with Ja...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume