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4181. Harley MS 4081

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4081
Title:
Giovanni da Correggio, De Quercu Julii
Scope & Content:
The single surviving manuscript of the alchemical work by Giovanni da Correggio (b. 1451, d. 1506?), one of the most controversial achemists of the late 15th century, who called himself the 'Angel of Wisdom' and the 'younger Hermes'. ff. 1r-3r: Giovanni da Correggio, Preface to Pope Julius II (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1506
Extent:
1 volume

4182. Harley MS 4082

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4082
Title:
Anthology of Italian Humanistic Texts
Scope & Content:
A 15th-century Italian humanistic manuscript comprising literary texts in Italian including speeches, translations and literary history. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Inscriptions with drawing of a head of a devil in brown ink (probably originally with an ownership inscription but the name has been era...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4183. Harley MS 4083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4083
Title:
Fratre Anthonio Hispano, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25v: Fratre Anthonio Hispano, a monk of the Mount of Olives, Ecclesiasticos admonens ad residentiam et fidelem dispensationem suorum beneficiorum. Decoration: 2 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds (ff. 1v, 2r). 26 large plain initials in red or blue (ff. 2v, 3r, 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4184. Harley MS 4084

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4084
Title:
Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae; Berengar of Tours, Iuste iudex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Epistulae (Letters) in nine books, written by the poet, diplomat and bishop Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius (b. c. 430, d. 381/490), better known as Sidonius Apollinaris. The volume also includes a copy of Iuste iudex Iesu Christe, a Latin poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4185. Harley MS 4087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4087
Title:
Scope & Content:
Collection of Medical Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. (1445). Latin and Italian. Copies. Imperfect. A miscellaneous volume including medical and surgical treatises by Giovanni da Parma (art. 1, ff. 1-5v), Dominico da Ragusa (art. 2, ff. 11-22v), Bernard de Gordon (art. 3, ff. 23-26), Benvenutu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

4186. Harley MS 4088

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4088
Title:
Ciriaco d'Ancona, Naumachia; Bernardinus Capella and Gasparus Manius, Eclogues
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript, consisting of two separate parts (ff. 1-12 and ff. 13-21) copied at different times. The first contains a work by the humanist scholar Ciriaco d'Ancona (b. 1391, d. 1455), the second poems by Bernardino Capella (1460-1524) and Gaspar Manius (b. 1457, d. 1497). The first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4187. Harley MS 4090

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4090
Title:
Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De re uxoria, a treatise on marriage written by Francesco Barbaro (b. 1390, d. 1454), a Venetian politician, diplomat and humanist. The work was composed to celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo de Medici (b. c. 1395, d. 1440) and Ginevra Cavalcanti (b. 1397, d. 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4188. Harley MS 4091

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4091
Title:
Pseudo-Augustine, Homiliae quinquanti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-207v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), Homiliae quinquanti, beginning with the rubric: 'Incipit tractatus sancti augustini de eo quod scriptum est Quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit videre dies bonos'. Decoration: Large initials and rubrics in silver or red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4189. Harley MS 4092

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4092
Title:
Prudentius, Psychomachia (imperfect); Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, Elegia; Sedulius, Hymnus; Acrostic poem attributed to Liberatus, Liberii acrotichis de Sedulio; Bernardus Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi; Hymn beginning Qui sua dat cunctis; Boethius De consolation philosophie.
Scope & Content:
Codex composed of three parts. Leaves lost before f. 1.ff. 4-5 and 151-157 apparently replaced in the 13th or 14th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex, 158 folios.

4190. Harley MS 4092 ff. 39-86v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4092 ff. 39-86v
Title:
Bernardus Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi; Hymn beginning: Qui sua dat cunctis.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 39r-40v: Prologue of the De contemptu mundi. ff. 40v-55v: First book of Bernardus Morlanensis' De contemptu mundi. ff. 55v-70v: Second book of Bernardus Morlanensis' De contemptu mundi. ff. 70v-83v: Third book of Bernardus Morlanensis' De contemptu mundi. On the below margin th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A part of Harley MS 4092.

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