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3121. Harley MS 3147

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3147
Title:
Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae Institutiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-188r: Lactantius Firmianus (fl. 305–323), Divinae Institutiones. f. 188v: A passage from St Augustine, De Civitate Dei (Book XX), beginning: 'Nullus igitur vel negat vel dubitat per Christum Iesum tale quale'. Decoration: Spaces for initials have been left blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3122. Harley MS 6670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6670
Title:
Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

3123. Harley MS 1600

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1600
Title:
Collection of medical recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical and surgical recipes and charms from the late 14th century or early 15th century with added recipes and charms that date to the late 15th and/or early 16th century. Two of the charms refer to the Earl of Hereford (f. 35r) and the Infirmary of Killyngworth (f. 35v). The re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

3124. Harley MS 2148

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2148
Title:
Cartulary of St Werburgh’s Abbey, Chester
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–3r: ‘Index virorum’, added by Randle Holme (1627–1700). ff. 4r–69v: Register of pleas concerning the property of St Werburgh’s Abbey during the reigns of Henry III, Edward I, and Edward II, with insertions from the late 14th and early 15th centuries. ff. 70r–71v: ‘Index Locorum’, added ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3125. Harley MS 2468

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2468
Title:
Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones and Paradoxa stoicorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78r: Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones (Tusculan Disputations); ff. 78r-85r: Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). [f. 85v is blank]. Decoration: Large white vine initials in gold or silver and colours at the beginning of the texts (ff. 1r, 78r). Smaller white vine ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1422
Extent:

1 volume

3126. Harley MS 3402

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3402
Title:
Ovid, Selected works in vernacular Italian
Scope & Content:
Ovid's Heroides and De Pulice in the 14th-century Italian translation by Filippo Ceffi. Contents: ff. 1r-127v: Ovid, Heroides, in vernacular Italian translation, with Preface (f. 1r), begins 'Adcioche tu o lectore abbia apertamente il conoscimento di questo libro...., Heroides (f. 1v) begins '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3127. Harley MS 3904

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3904
Title:
Peter Tudebode, Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere (The History of the Journey to Jerusalem). This is an eye-witness account of the First Crusade (1095-1099) by Peter Tudebode (fl. 1100), a priest from Poitou who accompanied the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles (b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-1110
Extent:
A parchment codex

3128. Harley MS 5299

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5299
Title:
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (published in its complete form in 1532); French translation by 'Helye Bonnet' of the first five books; dedicated to the ‘Dauphin’. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 2r, 72v, 73r: Inscriptions of numbers (possibly a cyp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1532-c 1540
Extent:
1 volume

3129. Harley MS 2616

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2616
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Beneficiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an Italian translation of De Beneficiis (On Benefits), a 1st-century work by the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. c. 4 BC, d. 65), also known as Seneca the Younger. Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Beneficiis. [f. 94v is blank]. Decorati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c. 1430-c. 1440
Extent:
1 volume

3130. Harley MS 2662

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2662
Title:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratorio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Institutio Oratorio (Institutes of Oratory), a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (b. c. 35, d. c. 100), also known as Quintilian. The text features marginal annotations, many written in Greek. Contents: ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
1434
Extent:
1 volume

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