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2941. Harley MS 4165

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4165
Title:
Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus; imperfect at the beginning due to missing folios, now opening with the line: 'quandoquidem amantes ut fui invicem fruantur contubernio studiose molitur'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [70e]recto: A single inscription: 'Busara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2942. Harley MS 4166

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4166
Title:
Collection of tracts on geomancy, onomancy and onomeirancy; a tract on ars memoriae; instructions for making fires and candles
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains a collection of seven parts that were written separately in the 14th and 15h century. The first part (ff. 1r-51v) contains two untitled geomantic works that were copied in the 15th century. The second part (ff. 52r-70v) contains another geomantic work that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2943. Harley MS 4167

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4167
Title:
Tommaso Campanella, La monarchia di Spagna
Scope & Content:
A copy of La monarchia di Spagna, which was written by the Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian Tommaso Campanella (b. 1568, d. 1639) in 1598, and contains advice for the King of Spain on how to attain universal monarchy of the world. Contents: ff. 1r-120v: Tommaso Campanella, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1600-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

2944. Harley MS 4169

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4169
Title:
Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Paradoxica stoicorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of three treatises by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): De Senectute (On Old Age), De Amicitia (On Friendship), and Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). The manuscript features added marginal annotations in Latin and Greek. Content...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2945. Harley MS 4172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4172
Title:
Collection of theological texts, including the Sacerdos parochialis and De Festis Duplicibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains various items that appear to have been compiled for the use of a priest. The first part (ff. 1r-63r) contains one of the seven extant copies of the Sacerdos parochialis, a manual for parish priests in Middle English and Latin, including tracts on the Pater noster, Ave Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2946. Harley MS 4182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4182
Title:
Register of Council causes, 30 July 1598-10 April 1599
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-264r: A register of Council causes from 30 July 1598 to 10 April 1599, entitled: 'A register booke of Counsell causes begon the 30th day of July 1598 of the Court at Grenwich'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A date inscription: 'Anno 1598: 30 Julij 1598 - E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2947. Harley MS 4185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4185
Title:
Lazare François Dagobert, Collection of poems in praise of Charles II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph copy of a collection of poems written in praise of King Charles II (r. 1660–1685). The volume was written and decorated by Lazare François Dagobert, a French writing master who was journeying in England at the time of its composition. Dagobert produced a similar c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
October 1683
Extent:
1 volume

2948. Harley MS 4186

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4186
Title:
Journal of the Privy Council, 1579
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Journal of the Privy Council, 1579, beginning: 'An open Commission to all vice admirals, Justices of Peace, Commissioners, Formatters of piracies, and all the officers of her majesties portes for the apprehending and makeinge staie of one Philpot with his ship, beinge lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1579
Extent:
1 volume

2949. Harley MS 4196

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4196
Title:
Expanded Northern Homily Cycle; Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum; The Gospel of Nicodemus; The Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-132r: Expanded Northern Homily Cycle. ff. 133r-205r: Tractatus de legenda Sanctorum [Sermons for saints’ days]. ff. 206r-215r: The Gospel of Nicodemus. ff. 215v-258v: The Prick of Conscience, imperfect [7 leaves missing between f. 228 and f. 229]. Decoration: Large ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2950. Harley MS 4197

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4197
Title:
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (translation of Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-102v: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, imperfect; an English translation [with Latin marginal notes] of Laurent de Premierfait’s Des Cas des nobles hommes et femmes, which is a French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (‘On the Fates of Famous M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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