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4071. Harley MS 3933

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3933
Title:
Marco Girolamo Vida, De Bombyce; Antonio Beccadelli, poems and letters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: Marco Girolamo Vida (b. ? 1485, d. 1566), Bishop of Cremona, 'De Bombyce' [ad Isabellam Estensem Marchionissam Mantuae] from his De arte poetica (1527), entitled: 'Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonen: Canonici Regularis de Bombyce Libri Duo'; beginning: 'Dii quibus indiderint p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1525-c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

4072. Harley MS 3934

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3934
Title:
Evrard de Béthune (Eberhardus Bethuniensis), Graecismus
Scope & Content:
Evrard de Béthune (Eberhardus Bethuniensis), Graecismus, incipit: 'Quoniam ignorancie nubilo turpiter excecati'; with a commentary. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in red. Capital letters highlighted in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1359
Extent:
1 volume

4073. Harley MS 3935

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3935
Title:
The Life and Miracles of St Norbert; exposition on the Rule of St Augustine; Hugh of Fouilloy, De duodecim abusionibus claustri; Sermo de tribus amicis
Scope & Content:
The contents of this later 12th-century manuscript suggest that it may have been made for a community of Augustinian or Praemonstratensian canons regular. The latter were also known as Norbertines, and followed a revised version of the Rule of St Augustine. This manuscript contains a life of St ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4074. Harley MS 3936

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3936
Title:
Juvenal, Saturae, with glosses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-118v: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Saturae, with contemporaneous glosses and marginal notes. Several notes are in Greek. The manuscript has later additions: ff. 1r, 2r-4r, 120r-122v: Notes and scribbles in ?17th-century hands. Decoration: A small initial in blue with red decor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4075. Harley MS 3937

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3937
Title:
Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-297r: Statuta Angliae, including Magna Carta, charters of Edward III, various statutes, and the Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton and the Proposiciones digestorum) attributed to John le Breton. Decoration: Partial border with a large puzzle initial in red...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4076. Harley MS 3938

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3938
Title:
Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers; Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis; moral poems; Odo of Cheriton, Parabolae; exempla
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*recto: A title page ‘Philosoph[orum] Vita ac Gesta’. ff. 1r-78v: Lives of Greek and Roman philosophers, organized chronologically. ff. 80r-107v: Petrus Alfonsi, Disciplina Clericalis. f. 108r: Latin verses, two of which are derived from Ovid, Ars Amatoria. f. 108v-109r: 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4077. Harley MS 3939

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3939
Title:
Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 49v: A practice sentence in English: 'Ryght worshypfull [crossed out]'; written in the (?) 16th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4078. Harley MS 3940

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3940
Title:
Sir John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer; a biblical account from the Creation to Isaac
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Sir John Mandeville, Voyage d'outre mer. ff. 50r-75v: A biblical account from the Creation to Isaac. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red and blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
14th century - 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4079. Harley MS 3941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was originally a single codex, but has been divided into two volumes, now Harley MS 3941/1 and Harley MS 3941/2. The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b. 599, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

2 volumes

4080. Harley MS 3941/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941/1
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b.c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The second volume is Harley 3941/2. Contents: f. 1r: Letter of Braulio to Isidore, imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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