Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4905
Title:: Florus, Epitome of the Roman History of Titus Livius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Florus, Epitome of the Roman History of Titus Livius.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4906
Title:: Jerome, De vita activa et contemplativa
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145r: Jerome, De vita activa et contemplative. Decoration: Partial border in colours and gold with birds, acanthus and floral motifs, and a large decorated initial 'T' (f. 1r); probably originally a 3-sided border, which was partially cut away with the lower margin. Large ini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1475
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4909
Title:: Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-125r: Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores. f. 126r: Table of contents. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Large plain initials in blue and red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1474-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4910
Title:: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-46v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy), books 1-5, with gloss; entitled: 'Incipiunt rubrice boetii de consolatione [etc.]'; beginning: 'Carmina qui quondam studio florente peregi / Flebilis heu mestos cogor inire modos'; and ending with the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4911
Title:: Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-159v: Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation. The manuscript contains later additions: Marginal 15th-century notes throughout the manuscript (especially ff. 99r-100r). ff. 56r-56v: Theological tract using the seven strings of the harp of David as a metaphor for the Cros...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4912
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-75v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-585]; beginning: 'The dowble sorowys of Troylus to telle / That was kyng Pryam sone of troye / In lovyng how hys aventuris fe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913
Title:: Miscellany of humanistic texts
Scope & Content:: Miscellany of humanistic texts, mostly Latin, including speeches and bulls of Pius II, works by Porcelius and Flavio Biondo, extracts from Ovid and a Maximos Planoudes' translation into Greek of Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 119 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913, ff 1r-66v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Flavio Biondo, Roma Instaurata. Arranged in three Books, each preceded by a table of contents.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 66 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4913, ff 67rv
Title:
Scope & Content:: Speech at the Congress of Mantua (1459). Inc. Magna pars vestrum venerabiles.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 folio

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