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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5205
Title:: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-64r: Lucidarium Philosophi eximii, a tract on divinity in the form of a dialogue between a master and his scholar. Decoration: Initials in red with red penwork decoration. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5209
Title:: Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Pseudo-Ovidius, Sappho; Lactantius Firmianus, De ave Phoenice; Pseudo-Virgilius, Moretum; Publius Ovidius Maro, Epistulae ex Ponto
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-43r: Albius Tibullus, Elegiae. ff. 43v-48r: Pseudo-Ovidius, Sappho. ff. 48v-52r: Lactantius Firmianus, De ave Phoenice. ff. 52v-54v: Pseudo-Virgilius, Moretum. ff. 55r-78v: Publius Ovidius Maro, Epistulae ex Ponto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5210
Title:: Jacobus de Varagine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-252v: Jacobus de Varagine [Voragine], Legenda aurea, beginning with an introduction: 'Universum tempus presentis vite in quatuor distinguitur [tempora] scilicet in tempus deviationis, renovationis sive revocationis, reconciliationis et peregrinationis'; followed by a table of c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5213
Title:: English writs and statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84v: Writs from the royal chancery ('Registrum Brevium cancellariae domini regis'); written in Latin. ff. 85r-163v: English statutes ('Statuta vetera'); beginning imperfectly in the Statuta de Merton; and followed by other statutes, including the Statuta de Marleberge; Statu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5214
Title:: Nova Statuta for the reigns of Edward III to Henry V
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-354r: Nova Statuta, for the reigns of Edward III (r. 1327-1377) [ff. 28r-178r], Richard II (r. 1377-1399) [ff. 178v-280v], Henry IV (r. 1399-1413) [ff. 281r-336r], up to 2 Henry V (r. 1413-1422) [ff. 336r-354r], beginning with a list of contents (ff. 1-27v); the statutes seem t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1375-c 1414
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5215
Title:: Collection of satirical and religious poems in Dutch
Scope & Content:: This manuscript originates from the milieu of the rederijkerskamers ('chambers of rhetoric') in the Low Countries. It contains a sequence of religious and satirical poems that are dated between 1547 and 1552. The manuscript was copied by a single scribe, most likely in the province of North Brab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: c 1552
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5216
Title:: Julius Sextus Frontinus, De Aquaeductu urbis Romae; Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae philosophorum (fragment); letter by Leonardo Bruni to Panormita (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38v, 47r-52r: Julius Sextus Frontinus, De Aquaeductu urbis Romae. ff. 39r-43v: Fragment (concluding part) of an abridged translation of Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae philosophorum. ff. 44r-45r: An alphabetical index for the preceding work. ff. 46r-46v: A fragment of a letter b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5217
Title:: Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-17r: Olivier de la Marche (b. c. 1425, d. 1502), military advice for a prince ('je me suis delibere de mettre par escript quelle chose cest dun gage de bataille comment le prince et le iuge si doibt conduire selon raison et bonne equite'), dedicated to Philip the Good (r. 1419...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5218
Title:
Scope & Content:: Medical Miscellany including Treatises by Petrus Hispanus and Galeazzo di Santasofia; 15th cent. Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: -a) Petrus Hispanus, Liber de conservanda sanitate (ff. 1-3; item 1); - b) Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus pauperum (ff. 3v-83; item 2); - c) Short treatises relating t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5219
Title:: Thomas Hobbes, The Mathematical Demonstration of the Sword
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript volume containing a treatise on fencing by Thomas Hobbes, with two printed plates. Hobbes titled the treatise 'To compare the strength of two swords that presse each other', which he inscribed on f.2. The title 'The Mathematicall demonstrastion off The Sorde' is inscribed ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1640s
Extent:: 1 volume

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