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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661

4901. Harley MS 5406

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5406
Title:
Varro, De lingua latina, bks 5-9
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1*r: table of contents, incorrectly listing De lingua Latina bks 4-9 instead of 5-9. ff. 2*v-3*r: reused folios from two other medieval manuscripts with unidentified theological texts. f. 2*v is a pastedown. ff. 1r-134v: De lingua latina libri XXV (On the Latin Language in Twenty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4902. Harley MS 5408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5408
Title:
An abridgement of law reports
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-235r: An abridgement of law reports; featuring a note in English on f. 158r: ‘After 4 leaves a day this book is r[...] on in 10 dayes’ ff. 236v-238v: Memoranda in English concerning legal matters, dated to the 14th year of Henry VIII (1522-1523).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4903. Harley MS 5411

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5411
Title:
Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum Fortuna aut Virtute; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad Meretrices Romanas
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ff. 24v-51v: Plutarch, Vita Pyrrhi. ff. 52r-69v: Plutarch, Vita Quinti Sertorii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4904. Harley MS 5412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5412
Title:
Sallust, Catiline
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-56: Sallust, Catiline. This is a 12th-century copy, with the beginning (f. 1-1v) and end (ff. 49r-56v) supplied by the 15th-century scribe of Harley MS 2648, which is a copy of Juvenal's Satires written in 1410, according to de la Mare, 'Humanistic' (1977).There are also distin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4905. Harley MS 5413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5413
Title:
Collection of Horace’s works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: ownership inscription, Claudius Houssardus, 15th century. ff. 2r-73v: Horace, Odes. ff. 73v-88r: Horace, Epodes. ff. 88v-90r: Horace, Carmen Saeculare (Worldly Song). ff. 90r-101r: Horace, Ars Poetica (The Poetic Art). ff. 101r-149v: Horace, Satirae (The Satires), glossed. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4906. Harley MS 5414

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5414
Title:
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century - 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4907. Harley MS 5415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5415
Title:
Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter. For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1463-c 1475
Extent:
1 volume

4908. Harley MS 5417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5417
Title:
Jean Poingdestre, Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-44v: Jean Poingdestre (b. 1609, d. 1691), Caesarea or A Discourse of the Island of Jersey in two Parts: The First, An Accompt of It as It Is at Present; The second, Some Historical Observations Relating to Antiquity.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4909. Harley MS 5418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5418
Title:
Brut Chronicle; Chronicon Angliae ab anno 75 ad 1192; Mirabilia Angliae; a fragmentary political work; Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo, De bello italico adversus Gotos
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 1r-82v) was written in England in the 4th quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 83r-105v) may have been written in Italy in the 17th century. Part 3 (ff. 106r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4910. Harley MS 5421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5421
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Bucolica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Bucolica, a series of allegorical eclogues on contemporary events, written by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375). Contents: ff. 1r-60v: Boccaccio, Bucolica. Decoration: 1 large blue initial with red penwork decoration (f. 1r). Nume...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1408
Extent:
1 volume

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