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151. Harley MS 5295

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5295
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory). Decoration: 1 large initial in colours and gold with interlace and white vine decoration forming a partial border (f. 1r). 5 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 4v (with purple pen-flourishing), 44r, 46r, 107r, 110r). C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

152. Harley MS 5304

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5304
Title:
Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Vita Terentii (Life of Terence), beginning, 'Revertente autem Scipione romam devucta Cartagine'. ff. 2r-135r: Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments, including: ff. 1r-26r: Andria (The Girl from Andros). ff. 26r-50r: Eunuchus. ff. 50v-74v: Heauton Timorum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

153. Harley MS 5310

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5310
Title:
Roman Breviary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-312v: Roman Breviary with a Calendar (ff. 1r-12v). Decoration: Large ‘KL’ initials in blue and red (ff. 1r-12v). Large initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in black or red ink. Small initials in blue and red, some with penwork decoration in the other colour.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

154. Harley MS 5355

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5355
Title:
Papal letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Letters by Pope Clement VII, Paul III and Julius III; ‘Litterae Civitatis Neopolitan.’; several signed by ‘Blosius’, the latest dated to 1541. ff. 40r-43r: An index for the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

155. Harley MS 5381

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5381
Title:
Enea Vico da Parma, Coins of the Twelve Caesars
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Enea Vico da Parma (b. 1523, d. 1567), drawings of coins (12 per page) of Roman Emperors [The Twelve Caesars], organised according to emperor; each emperor has his own frontispiece. Decoration: Original drawings in black ink used for engravings in Vico’s Le imagini con t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

156. Harley MS 5382

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5382
Title:
Notes on a lecture by Magister Lucha Ripa on Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36r: Notes on a lecture by Magister Lucha Ripa on Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae, entitled ‘Sub Magistro Lucha Ripa, Honorato Gramaticho, publice Ferrariae legente, Claudiani de Raptu Proserpinae, Interpretatio’. f. 1*recto: An untranscribed note.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

157. Harley MS 5387

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5387
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de nominibus maris liber
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Giovanni Boccaccio [Johannis Boccacii de Certaldo], De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus et de nominibus maris liber.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

158. Harley MS 5395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5395
Title:
Isaac the Syrian, Liber de contemptu mundi; Caesarius of Arles, Sermons; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini; James of Milan [Pseudo-Bonaventure], Stimulus amoris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: St Isaac the Syrian (fl. 7th century), Bishop of Nineveh, Liber de contemptu mundi; here entitled: ‘Liber ysaac abbatis syrie Sermo primus quomodo anima possit quiescere in deo que de accessu eius a deum qui creavit illam Et de contemptu mundi videlicet honoris divitiarum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

159. 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

160. 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