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3411. Harley MS 5413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5413
Title:
Collection of Horace’s works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: ownership inscription, Claudius Houssardus, 15th century. ff. 2r-73v: Horace, Odes. ff. 73v-88r: Horace, Epodes. ff. 88v-90r: Horace, Carmen Saeculare (Worldly Song). ff. 90r-101r: Horace, Ars Poetica (The Poetic Art). ff. 101r-149v: Horace, Satirae (The Satires), glossed. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3412. Harley MS 5414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5414
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century - 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3413. Harley MS 5415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5415
Title:
Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter. For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1463-c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

3414. Harley MS 5417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5417
Title:
Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3415. 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

3416. Harley MS 5421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5421
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Bucolica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Bucolica, a series of allegorical eclogues on contemporary events, written by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375). Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Boccaccio, Bucolica. Decoration: 1 large blue initial with red penwork decoration (f. 1r). Nume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1408
Extent:
1 volume

3417. Harley MS 5423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5423
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3418. 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

3419. 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

3420. Harley MS 5428

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5428
Title:
Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b, 103, d. 43 BC): his Orationes (Speeches) and Philippicae (Philippics). The text features accompanying marginalia in Italian hands that have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries (Watson, Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469-1470
Extent:
1 volume

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