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3951. Harley MS 2685

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2685
Title:
Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Mythologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and 10th-century interlinear and marginal glosses. ff. 24r-35v: Fulgentius Mythographus (fl. 500), Mythologiae (Mythologies), preceded by capitula (f. 24r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3952. Harley MS 3390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3390
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, translated into Italian by Dante Popoleschi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of an Italian translation of Suetonius' De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), made by Dante Popoleschi (fl. 2nd decade of the 16th century). The text is supplemented with a glossary, containing definitions of classical terms. The work is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century (between 1515 and 1547)
Extent:
1 volume

3953. Harley MS 3481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3481
Title:
Plato, Select works in the Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino
Scope & Content:
A deluxe copy of Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation of Plato's select dialogues< copied for Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples. Contents: f. 1: A parchment flyleaf. f. 2r: Naldus, Naldius (b. 1439, d. 1513), Epigram on Plato, begins 'Cum Deus aethereis hunc mittere vellet...'. ff. 2v-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1491-1493
Extent:
1 volume

3954. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3955. Harley MS 488

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 488
Title:
Robertus de Tumbalena, Commentary on the Song of Songs; Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52r: Robertus de Tumbalena (Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St Vigor of Bayeux), Commentary on the Song of Songs. ff. 52r-84r: Rule of St Benedict Decoration: 1 initial in gold (f. 1r). 1 initial in green with penwork decoration in green and red (f. 54v). Some large and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3956. Harley MS 5209

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5209
Title:
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Pseudo-Ovidius, Sappho; Lactantius Firmianus, De ave Phoenice; Pseudo-Virgilius, Moretum; Publius Ovidius Maro, Epistulae ex Ponto
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-43r: Albius Tibullus, Elegiae. ff. 43v-48r: Pseudo-Ovidius, Sappho. ff. 48v-52r: Lactantius Firmianus, De ave Phoenice. ff. 52v-54v: Pseudo-Virgilius, Moretum. ff. 55r-78v: Publius Ovidius Maro, Epistulae ex Ponto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3957. Harley MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 38
Title:
A miscellany of political papers and letters and tracts on coinage, transcribed largely by Ralph Starkey; original letters addressed to Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, and Sir Simonds D'Ewes, 1642-1648; A Licence to travayle for Francis Davison and Edward Smith granted by Queen Elizabeth I, 1595
Scope & Content:
This manuscript mostly contains 17th-century English letters and transcripts of 16th-century documents. It also features an original licence on parchment to travel outside of England for three years granted to a ‘Francis Davison’ and ‘Edward Smith’, signed by Queen Elizabeth I and with her wax s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1595-1648
Extent:
1 volume

3958. Harley MS 2374

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2374
Title:
A miscellany of medical texts, including a botanical glossary, a collection of medical recipes, and a Middle English translation of the Antidotarium Nicolai
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript is made up of two booklets (ff. 1-28 and 29-64), both made in the 15th century. The first booklet comprises a botanical glossary, a partial copy of an antidotary (book of antidotes) and a collection of medical recipes in Middle English and Latin. The second contains an ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3959. Harley MS 3103

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3103
Title:
Bede, Commentaries on Proverbs and the Acts of the Apostles; Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes; Nomina regionum et locorum de Actibus Apostolorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-43r: Bede the Venerable, Commentary on Proverbs. ff. 43v-71r: Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes. ff. 72r-91v: Bede the Venerable, Commentary on Acts of the Apostles. ff. 91v-93v: Nomina regionum et locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; imperfect at the end. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1128-c 1150
Extent:
1 volume

3960. Harley MS 4660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4660
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’. f. 1v: A transcription of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, English, Old, and Germanic languages
Date Range:
c 1643-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

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