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2381. Harley MS 3924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3924
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-164v: Cicero, De Officiis (On Duties). Decoration: 1 full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds and animals, with a large white vine initial in colours and gold with a portrait, and, in the lower margin, a wreath designed for heraldic arms, supported by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2382. Harley MS 5345

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5345
Title:
Agostino Dati, Eligantiae
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of a Renaissance rhetorical manual by Agostino Dati (1420–78), philosopher, theologian, historian, linguist and teacher in Siena. Contents: ff. 1* and 3* are parchment flyleaves with various inscriptions. ff. 1r-7r: Letter to a certain Franciscus congratulating him on marrying...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2383. Harley MS 5428

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5428
Title:
Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b, 103, d. 43 BC): his Orationes (Speeches) and Philippicae (Philippics). The text features accompanying marginalia in Italian hands that have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries (Watson, Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469-1470
Extent:
1 volume

2384. Harley MS 5285

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5285
Title:
Plautus, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: Short texts concerning Plautus, with excerpts from Horace, De arte poetica; Quintilian, Instituto Oratoria; Gellius (Agellius), Noctes atticae; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia; Eusebius of Caesaria, Chronica; Augustine of Hippo, De civitate Deo; Paulus Diaconus, De sig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1415
Extent:
1 volume

2385. Harley MS 431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 431
Title:
Collection of papers and letters from the circle of John Prophete
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-124r: Collection of letters and historical documents from the circle of John Prophete [Prophet] (b. 1356, d. 1416), Secretary to King Henry VI, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Dean of Hereford and York. The collection's materials are concerned largely with resolving the Schism, especially w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2386. Harley MS 714

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 714
Title:
Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Edward II. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 423, the manuscript also contained an unbound paper with a text concerning the Parliament, but this item has not been found in cataloguing the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2387. Harley MS 720

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 720
Title:
Transcript of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-501r: A transcript of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry IV (1-2, 4-5 Henry IV).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2388. Harley MS 725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 725
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-539v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI (15, 18, 20, 23 Henry VI).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2389. Harley MS 726

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 726
Title:
Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Henry VI
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-530v: Transcripts of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Henry VI (25, 27-29, 31, 32 Henry VI).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume

2390. Harley MS 2087

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2087
Title:
Inquisitions post mortem for tentants-in-chief from Henry III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The title for an index planned on ff. 1r-[1i]verso but never finished: ‘Index Locorum’. f. 1r: On a parchment pastedown: ‘Decl[ar]ed and delivered in the presence of: Richard [...]hull, Richard Henshawe, William Haughton – 1624’. f. 2v: A title-page: ‘Nomina eorum qui de Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

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