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

81. Harley MS 3435

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3435
Title:
Account of the 1623 papal conclave; legal documents concerning taxes
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately. The first part (ff. 1-130) contains an Italian account of the 1623 papal conclave in which Urban VIII was elected. The second part (ff. 131-161r) contains legal documents concerning taxes, dating to 1465-1466. Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1465-1623
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 3439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3439
Title:
Plautus, Commediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-107r: Plautus, Commediae: Amphitruo, Asinaria, Captivi, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, and Aulularia, which is imperfect at the end. Decoration: Spaces for large decorated initials left empty throughout the manuscript. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

83. Harley MS 3443

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3443
Title:
Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jugurthine War
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline. ff. 20v-54v: Sallust, The Jugurthine War, ending with the colophon: 'Laus tibi sit Christe qui liber explicit iste amen'; and the poem: 'Qui cupit ignotum Jugurte noscere letum / Tarpeie rupis pulsus ad ima ruit / Historie scriptor ne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 3462

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3462
Title:
Letters and historical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-245r: Letters and historical texts in Latin and Italian; for an item description see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, III (1808), pp. 28-29.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1506-1515
Extent:
1 volume

85. Harley MS 3473

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3473
Title:
Notice to the Spanish ambassador in Rome relating to a papal election; instructions from the Duke of Bracciano for Lodovico Orsino; Michele Suriano, description of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Notice to the Spanish ambassador in Rome relating to a papal election, entitled: 'Laviso all' Ambasciatore di Spagna in Roma del tempo di Paola V. come haverà da servire à S. M. Cat[holica] sede Vacante per L'Electione d'un Papa a suo gusto'. ff. 12r-23v: Instructions fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

86. Harley MS 3479

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3479
Title:
Letters of Carlo Visconti, Bishop of Ventimiglia, from the Council of Trent
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-130v: Letters of Carlo Visconti (b. 1523, d. 1565), Bishop of Ventimiglia, from the Council of Trent, written in 1563.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1563
Extent:
1 volume

87. Harley MS 3483

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3483
Title:
Pseudo-Joachim, Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Pseudo-Joachim, Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, in Italian. ff. 65r-65v: Giudicio e Dichiaratione della Ruota Soggionta, in Italian. ff. 66r-67r: Dichiaratione dell'oracolo turchesco, in Italian. Decoration: 35 full-page monochrome illustrations of the content of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

88. Harley MS 3491

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3491
Title:
Francesco Patrizi of Siena, De institutione rei politicae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-187v: Franciscus Patricius Senensis (b. 1413, d. 1494), De institutione rei politicae. Decoration: Capitals in alternate red and blue. Running titles in red and blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1512
Extent:
1 volume

89. Harley MS 3500

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3500
Title:
Latin version of the Lead Books of Sacromonte
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin translation of the Lead Books of Sacromonte by the Franciscan friar and Arabic specialist Bartolomeus a Pectorano [Bartolomé de Pettorano] (d. 1688) at the Convent of Saint Isidore in Rome in 1644. The Lead Books of Sacromonte are a set of 22 books with lead leav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1644-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

90. Harley MS 3503

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3503
Title:
Excerpts about and from Horace
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-91v: Excerpts about and from Horace, opening with a poem entitled 'Prometheus'. Beginning: 'Audax Iapeti genus'; ending imperfectly in Horace's Odes (Carmina), I, Book 3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume