Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Digitised Content: No - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5429
Title:: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 2 large blue initials with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 21r). Initials in blue or red, usually alternating. Smaller initials in blue or red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5430
Title:: English statutes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3*r-7*r: A table of contents for the manuscript. ff. 1r-4v: Magna Carta. ff. 4v-6r: The Charter of the Forest (1217). ff. 6r-12v: The Statute of Malborough (1267). ff. 12v-14r: The Statute of Merton (1236). ff. 14r-17r: The Statute of Gloucester (1278). ff. 17r-28r: Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and French, Middle
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5432
Title:: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: pp. 1-188: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. p. 189 is a ruled parchment leaf with an erased inscription. Decoration: Large initial in gold on a blue panel with foliate decoration, combined with a full border with flowers, cornucopias, candelabras, dragon heads and a defaced...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5433
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-70: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis, written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini]...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1446
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5435
Title:: John de Burgh, Pupilla Oculi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-363v: John de Burgh, Pupilla Oculi; a reworking of the Oculus Sacerdotis of William of Pagula’; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-12v); and a prologue (ff. 13r-14v). The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1*recto: A (?) 17th-century note: ‘This MS. relates entirely to the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5436
Title:: Origen, Sermon on St Mary Magdalen; Gulielmus Brito, Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistola ad Paulum et invicem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological works written in the 15th century. It also contains fragments from other manuscripts that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript. Among these are two previously unidentified leaves from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, which survives ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1451-1469
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5437
Title:: Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-96: Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis. Text omitted by the scribe on f. 90v was supplied by a late 14th-century reader on ff. 95v-96.14th- and 15th-century marginal notes. Decoration: Puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing in red and purple (f. 1r). Initials alte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5438
Title:: Florus, Epitome of Roman History; Cicero, Catilinarian Orations
Scope & Content:: Contents: pp. 1-163: Florus, Epitome of Roman History. pp. 165-173: Cicero, Catilinarian Orations, with a spurious response by Catiline. pp. 164, 174-78 are blank. Horizontal catchwords. Decoration: Partial white vine border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold (p. 1). 3 sma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5439
Title:: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Divinae institutiones (The Divine Institutes), a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 350). Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones. f. 196v is blank. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5440
Title:: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean de Vignay
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-82v: Jacobus de Cessolis [Jacopo da Cessole] (b. c. 1250, d. 1322), Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum; a translation in French out of Latin by Jean de Vignay (b. c. 1285, d. 1348), beginning: ‘A Tres noble et excellent prince Jehan de fran...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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