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4061. Harley MS 3921

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3921
Title:
Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De officiis (On duties), a Latin treatise in three books, written by the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-197v: Cicero, De officiis. Decoration: Large initials with blue grisaille on gold panels with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4062. Harley MS 3922

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3922
Title:
Ermolao Barbaro, Contra Poetas
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of the Speeches against Classical Poets (Orationes contra Poetas) by Bishop Ermolao Barbaro of Verona (b. 1410, d. 1471), probably executed for the author himself (cf. Ronconi, Ermolao (1972). The work is a review of the major classical Roman poets from a moral perspective to sur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4063. Harley MS 3923

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3923
Title:
Collection of theological texts including Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Institutione Novitiorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Pseudo-Augustine, De Conflictu Vitiorum. ff. 4r-10v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Spiritu et Anima. ff. 11r-17r: Peter of Blois, Compendium super Job. ff. 17r-24v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes. ff. 25r-36r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Institutione Novitiorum. ff. 36r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4064. Harley MS 3924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3924
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-164v: Cicero, De Officiis (On Duties). Decoration: 1 full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds and animals, with a large white vine initial in colours and gold with a portrait, and, in the lower margin, a wreath designed for heraldic arms, supported by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4065. Harley MS 3925

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3925
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De Inventione (On Invention), a handbook for orators written by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), and Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius), a book on rhetoric formerly attributed to him. Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Cicero, De Inventio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1431
Extent:
1 volume

4066. Harley MS 3926

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3926
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on 1 John
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-86v: Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on 1 John, imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large initials in red (some oxidised). Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4067. Harley MS 3927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3927
Title:
King Edward VI's Catechism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r, 4r-59r: King Edward VI's Catechism, entitled: 'Catchismus brevis Christianæ disciplinæ summam continens omnibus Ludimagistris authoritate Regia commendatus'; with the note: 'Huic Catechismo adiuncti sunt articuli de quibus in ultra Synodo, ad tollendam opinionum dissentione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1547-1553
Extent:
1 volume

4068. Harley MS 3930

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3930
Title:
De natura locorum; Eberhardus de Valle Scholarum, Sermones de Sanctis; an exposition of the New Testament
Scope & Content:
A composite miscellany that consists of three different parts, each produced separately in the 14th century as indicated by differences in script, decoration, layout and quality of parchment. Each of the three parts contains a single text, meaning that their beginnings and endings correspond wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4069. Harley MS 3931

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3931
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-84v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis. Decoration: Several small initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red ink.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4070. Harley MS 3932

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3932
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Title-page, added in a post-medieval hand. ff. 2r-43v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). f. 44v: an added inscription in a 15th-century Italian hand. ff. 1v and 44r are ruled and unwritten. Decoration: White vine initial in colours and g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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