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2501. Harley MS 484

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 484
Title:
Diary of Simonds D’Ewes 1645-1647
Scope & Content:
Manuscript diary of private and public events by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, covering the period 1 June 1645 – 24 March 1646/7. Running title: ‘Ephemeris sive Diarium’. Originally in two volumes. (conclusion of entry for 31 June 1646 indicates break between the books: ‘… effeci hoc mense cuius ultimo di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1645-1647
Extent:
1 volume

2502. Harley MS 2526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2526
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Petrarch, Vita Terentii. f. 5r: Epitaphium Terentii. ff. 5r-130v: Terence, Comoediae. Partial border and large initial in colours and gold (f. 5v). Other large initials in colours and gold (ff. 26v, 49r, 70v, 92v, 111r). 2 smaller initials in gold on blue and red, or bl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
1 volume

2503. Harley MS 3503

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3503
Title:
Excerpts about and from Horace
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-91v: Excerpts about and from Horace, opening with a poem entitled 'Prometheus'. Beginning: 'Audax Iapeti genus'; ending imperfectly in Horace's Odes (Carmina), I, Book 3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2504. Harley MS 3689

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3689
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Speculum historiale (Mirror of History), written by the Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (b. c. 1184/1194, d. c. 1264). The work is a history of the world from Creation to Vincent's own lifetime. Contents: ff. 1r-285r: Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2505. Harley MS 3737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3737
Title:
Alexander Neckam, De naturis rerum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Alexander Neckham, De naturis rerum, with added glosses including a passage from P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses and Claudianus De phenicae (f. 31r). Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red, with pen-flourishing and penwork decoration including foliate motifs (f. 2r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1180-c 1200
Extent:

Parchment codex

2506. Harley MS 3927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3927
Title:
King Edward VI's Catechism
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r, 4r-59r: King Edward VI's Catechism, entitled: 'Catchismus brevis Christianæ disciplinæ summam continens omnibus Ludimagistris authoritate Regia commendatus'; with the note: 'Huic Catechismo adiuncti sunt articuli de quibus in ultra Synodo, ad tollendam opinionum dissentione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1547-1553
Extent:
1 volume

2507. Harley MS 5014

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5014
Title:
William of Pagula, Summa summarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-254v: William of Pagula, Summa summarum. Decoration: 1 historiated initial and a three-sided bar-border in gold and colours with some foliage, a bird and a hybrid creature (f. 1r). 3 large decorated initials and bar-borders in gold and colours with foliate motifs, a grotesque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2508. Harley MS 5114

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5114
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De legibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-226v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De legibus. Decoration: 12 large white vine initials in gold, red, green and blue, some with bird or animal heads (ff. 1r, 9r, 21r, 30r, 61r, 80r, 106v, 122r, 144r, 167v, 191v, 206v). The initial 'P'(ublium) on f. 206v features a gold dragon's hea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-c 1430
Extent:
1 volume

2509. Harley MS 5383

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5383
Title:
Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Books 1-6 of the Historia Langobardorum (The History of the Lombards) by Paul the Deacon. The rest of the text survives in another manuscript, Florence, BR, 2795, to which this manuscript was originally joined. Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1350
Extent:
1 volume

2510. Harley MS 6946

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6946
Title:
Five sermons by John Donne
Scope & Content:
Five sermons by John Donne, each transcribed by a different scribe. Sermons 2-5 have been corrected at a later date. f. 1*r reads ‘IV Excellent Sermons Preachd & wrote in the 17. Cent’. ff. 1r-11r: ‘Prou: 8: 17: I love them that love mee and they that seeke mee earlie shall finde mee’. Beg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1630
Extent:
1 volume

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