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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4965
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-212v: Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond. Decoration: All'antica border in gold on a blue ground; roundels with heraldic devices and cameos; coat of arms (f. 5r). The miniature of the large initial 'E' has been excised (f. 5r)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1482
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones; Liber Catonianus
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made of two parts produced at different locations and times. The first part (ff. 5r-76r) contains the Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law) by the late-12th century theologian Peter of Blois and the Institutiones (Institutions) by Emperor Justinian I (b. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1250
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967, ff 1r-76v
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Short texts and notes, including a poem on f. 2r which is also in Royal MS 11 D III, f. 243r. f. 4v: A table of contents of Justinian's Institutiones (Institutions). ff. 5r-19r: Peter of Blois (b. c. 1130, d. 1212), Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law), beg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4967

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967, ff 77r-193v
Title:: Liber Catonianus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 77r-77v: A damaged fragment from an unidentified manuscript. ff. 78r-185v, 192r-193v: Liber Catonianus, with marginal and interlinear glosses, beginning: 'Lux beata'. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 186r-191v: John of Garland (d. after 1258), Synonyma (The Synonyms...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1250
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 4967

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4968
Title:: William of Pagula, Cilium oculi sacerdotis; Jacob of Lausanne, Sermones de communi sanctorum
Scope & Content:: f. 1*v: Contemporary table of contents, corresponding to medieval foliation (as it now stands). f. 3*r–v: Fragment of a late 12th-century copy of Hugh of Fleury, Historia ecclesiastica. ff. 1r–46v: William of Pagula, Cilium oculi sacerdotis (Oculus sacerdotis, part 4). ff. 47r–63v: Jacob of L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4970
Title:: Aristotle, De animalibus
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, De animalibus (ff. 1r-65r) with an added table of contents (ff. 65v-66r). Decoration: Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours extending into the margin (f. 1). Initials in blue with pink and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 4r, 7r, 10v, 14r, 17r, 20r, etc.). Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:: 66 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4970, ff 1*r-1*v
Title:: Flyleaf, original pastedown
Scope & Content:: The flyleaf includes a text in a 14th-century English hand, incipit: 'Mater mellenius...'; and 16th or 17th-century pen trials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4970, ff 1r-65r
Title:: Aristotle, De animalibus
Scope & Content:: The title 'Liber de animalibus' is inscribed in a 14th-century hand (f. 1r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 65 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4970, ff 65v-66r
Title:: Table of contents
Scope & Content:: A table of contents in a 14th-century English hand, unfinished: contains only chapters of book 1 and ends with 'capitula secundi libri', although the manuscript does not contain the division in chapters. Both folios also include 16th or 17th century pen trials and notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-17th century
Extent:: 2 folios; f 66 is an original pastedown.

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