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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3706
Title:: Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary
Scope & Content:: Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum with commentary; imperfect. The short version of the famous collection of didactic verse (360 verses) on health, diet, and medicine put together for oral transmission by doctors at the School of Salerno and assembled in written form with an anonymous commentary in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 86 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3931
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-84v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis. Decoration: Several small initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red ink.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4230
Title:: Articles of news in Italian
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-207v: Articles of news in Italian from Rome, Venice, Antwerp, and other places, in the years 1591-1596. On f. 46r, written in Latin, a letter signed by Sir Henry Wotton (b. 1568, d. 1639), English ambassador to Venice, dated to the year 1600.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1591-1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4963
Title:: Flavius Josephus, De Bello Iudaico
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the last of four volumes comprising the Antiquae Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews), a history of the Jewish people, and De Bello Iudaico (On the Jewish War), an account of the First Jewish-Roman War, written by the historian Titus Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 100). This vol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5270
Title:: Peter Lombard, Libri Quattuor Sententiarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Peter Lombard’s Libri Quattuor Sententiarum. This copy has previously been dated to the 14th century (see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 257), but new analysis of the script and page layout indicates that it was produced in the late 12t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5288
Title:: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-153v: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistolae. Decoration: 8 large initials in colours on burnished gold grounds (ff. 2r, 21r, 44v, 62v, 77v, 95r, 115v, 134v). Numerous small initials in gold or purple. Rubrics in red. Epigraphic capitals in red (ff. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5362
Title:: Lections from Martial's Epigrammata
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Lections from Martial's Epigrammata (Epigrams).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1583
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5493
Title:: [Fragment of Kıssa-yı Ebu Müslim]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a detached portion of the story of Ebu Müslim, a well-known romance, the hero of which is the celebrated general who seated the Abbasids on the throne and was put to death by Khālif Abū Manṣūr in 137 AH (755 CE). The text is not divided into sections as in Or 1128. It is d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 118 ff

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