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161. Harley MS 2586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2586
Title:
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova; Francesco Piccinini, Poetry collection dedicated to Antonius Astensis; Guarino da Verona, Epistolae; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Poetria nova of Geoffrey de Vinsauf (fl. 1200) and a poetry collection by Francesco Piccinini (fl. 15th century), who identifies himself as a ducal scribe and dedicates the work to Antonius Astensis. The volume also includes a number of letters by the Italian humanis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

162. 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

163. Harley MS 6512

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6512
Title:
Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Fragmentary annotations by the humanist Sozomeno da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458) on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. The old foliation (nos. 56, 57, 49, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96) indicates that the leaves were once part of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427-c 1458
Extent:
1 volume

164. Harley MS 5204

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5204
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis; with added Latin verses by Petrarch
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio), the sixth book of De re publica by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). It is followed by a commentary on the text by the Roman author Macrobius. The volume features marginal an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

165. Harley MS 3530

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3530
Title:
Collection of excerpts from St Jerome; Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia; Pope Pius II, De Roma; Pulcra dicta sanctorum; De consolatione et timoris penitentie; 'Master Frater Antonio', Sono li Dodeci Articuli de la fede nostra; Sono li Dieci Commandamenti de la lege Christiana Dati da Dio a Moises in suse el Monte Sinay; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola sancti Bernardi ad Raymundum militem de re familiari gubernanda; Peter Damian, De gloria paradisi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-83v: A collection of excerpts from various works of St Jerome, preceded by a table of contents; also including a letter on the death of Jerome attributed to Eusebius of Cremona; and the Life of St Malchus of Syria by Jerome. f. 83v: Zeno of Verona, De castitate seu puditia. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1463
Extent:

1 volume

166. 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

167. Harley MS 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4150
Title:
Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

168. Harley MS 5198

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5198
Title:
Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax; Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Donatus, De barbarisimo; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Persius, Satires. ff. 15r-39r: Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae. ff. 39r-40v: Ovid (here attributed), De Philomena. ff. 40v-42r: Latin epigrams, including (among others): 'Maro ad augustum Caesarem'; 'Supplicat Cornelius Gallus ad Augustum ne comburatur Aeneis'; 'Suppl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1430-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume