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31. Harley MS 3333

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3333
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript containing the Facetiae (Jokes) by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459) was completed on 10 June 1456. The Facetiae was one of the most popular joke books of the Renaissance. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae. Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
A parchment codex

32. Harley MS 3653

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3653
Title:
Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: The Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 65r-66r: Notes in multiple (?) 15th-century hands, including inscriptions in Italian ('pieruccino presto […]'). f. 65v: Short texts, beginning: 'Hic est martir chananeus'; 'Et Chr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1100 - c 1175
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 3829

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3829
Title:
Goffredo Conratter, Urbis ac territorii Patavini descriptio
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Goffredo Conratter, Urbis ac territorii Patavini descriptio, with the fragmentary title: 'Urbis acTerritorii Patavini descriptio. In gratiam eorum qui urbes Italiæ per lustrare cupiunt, in lucem edita. Authore Gottfrido Co[…]'. Decoration: Rubrics in red. A floral moti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. 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

35. 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

36. Harley MS 5255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5255
Title:
Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462. f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae. f. 22v: Italian verses. ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu san...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1467
Extent:

1 volume

37. Harley MS 2810

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2810
Title:
Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-404v: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 381r-404v), ending imperfectly at the beginning of the first letter to Timothy. The manuscript contains a few additions: A few marginal annotations added by later medieval owners throughout the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

38. Harley MS 1874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1874
Title:
Relatione di Persia l'anno 1580
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-34r: Relatione di Persia l'anno 1580. ff. 40r-40v: leaves from an unidentified 13th/14th-century breviary, used as flyleaves in this manuscript and related to those in Harley MS 1869, ff. 1*, 90-91, Harley MS 1870, ff. 37-38, Harley MS 1871, ff. 50-51, Harley MS 1872, ff. 36, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1580
Extent:
1 volume

39. 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

40. Harley MS 2514

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2514
Title:
Papias, Ars grammatica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Papias, Ars grammatica. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including flowers and foliate motifs (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including flowers and foliate motifs (ff. 6r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume