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3621. Harley MS 3306

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3306
Title:
Ptolemy, On Music translated into Latin by Niccolò Leoniceno
Scope & Content:
A deluxe copy of the treatise of Claudius Ptolomaeus On Music in Latin from the library of the Franchino Gaufurio a Renaissance theorist of music and harmony. Contents: f.1v-2r: Table of chapters, with the inscription: 'Franchini Gafurii Laudensis musice professoris hic liber est (written in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1499
Extent:
1 volume

3622. Harley MS 3450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3450
Title:
An atlas of 17 sea charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:
This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's 17 charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. A similar collection of charts by Martines, also executed i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

3623. Harley MS 3534

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3534
Title:
Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and marginal glosses. It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing Horace’ (1996), p. 107). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3624. Harley MS 4417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4417
Title:
Livre de Sydrac; Huon de Méry, Le tournoiement Antechrist
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Livre de Sydrac (Book of Sydrac), an anonymous philosophical work in Old French, written between 1270 and 1300. The text is presented in the form of a dialogue between an ancient Babylonian king named Boctus and Sydrac, a philosopher. The volume also includes Le Torn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3625. Harley MS 570

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 570
Title:
John Norden, Speculum Britannae
Scope & Content:
A draft autograph manuscript, first published in 1593, with significant alterations, as Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. This was the beginning of a projected series of county maps of England that was never completed. This manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591-1593
Extent:
1 volume

3626. Harley MS 4869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4869
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Thebais (Song of Thebes), a Latin epic poem by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96). It recounts the story of two brothers Eteocles and Polynices, who clash over the throne of the city of Thebes. The volume also contains a set of arg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3627. Harley MS 5342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5342
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122). Contents: ff. 1r-231v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum. [[f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3628. Harley MS 912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 912
Title:
Scope & Content:
Commonplace-Book including Theological and Historical Texts in Prose and Verse; mid 14th cent. Latin and Anglo-Norman. Imperfect. The commonplace-book, now in two volumes, also includes the Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Antiochum regem (ff. 393-393v; item 1), followed (ff. 393-395v; item 2)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 item

3629. Harley MS 963

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 963
Title:
Excerpts from William Camden’s Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Britain and Ireland together with the Adjacent Islands
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Excerpts from William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623)’s Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Britain and Ireland together with the Adjacent Islands.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3630. Harley MS 1605/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1605/2
Title:
A collection of Middle English medical, trick and cosmetical recipes; a Latin charm and recipes against vermin; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of three volumes that comprise Harley MS 1605 (the others being Harley MS 1605/1 and Harley MS 1605/3). Harley MS 1605/2 contains three parts that were separately produced in the 15th century and brought together at an unknown point in time before or after they reac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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