4091. Harley MS 5796
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4092. Harley MS 2375
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2375
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Compilation of Medical and Astrological Texts and Recipes; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. The MS. is a compilation of medical and astrological texts and recipes; its cataloguing was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Owned by John Batteley (1647-1708), clergyman and antiquary. Boug...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
4093. Harley MS 2637
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2637
- Title:
- Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 9th century-10th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
4094. Harley MS 371
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 371
- Title:
- Thomas Smith's dialogue on Elizabeth I's marriage and a Life of Mary Queen of Scots
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 1r–58v: Sir Thomas Smith's dialogue concerning Elizabeth I's marriage, c. 1560, without the preamble, beginning 'As I was walking in my garden alone'. The first six leaves were removed from Harley MS 252 (numbered ff. 27–32). Printed in John Strype, The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith (1...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4095. Harley MS 2784
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2784
- Title:
- Cicero, De officiis; Paradoxica stoicorum; De amicitia; De senectute; Lactantius, De vero cultu; Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Cicero, De officiis (On duties). ff. 46r-51v: Cicero, Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic paradoxes). ff. 52r-64r: Cicero, De amicitia (On friendship). ff. 64r-74v: Cicero, De senectute (On old age). ff. 75r-99r: Lactantius, De vero cultu (Bk. VI of the Institutiones Divi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4096. Harley MS 364
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 364
- Title:
- Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae; transcripts of charters from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; English translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe; 'Of Predestinacion and the Providence of God'; English translation of Pierre Boitel's Défaite du faux amour par l'unique des braves de ce temps;Paul D'Ewes, theological discourses
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is a large composite miscellany, consisting of historical papers and literary works that were copied separately at different periods of time from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Contents: f. 1r: A tract, entitled: 'Howe a man shal be armed at his ease when he shall fi...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4097. Harley MS 586
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 586
- Title:
- Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum; Bonaventura, Incendium amoris; (?)Adam of Dore, Pictor in carmine; Guibert de Tournai, Sermons
- Scope & Content:
- This composite manuscript consists of four parts. The first part (ff. 1r-85r) was written in the 2nd half of the 13th century. The second part (ff. 86r-169v) and third part (ff. 170r-170v) were written in the 14th century. The fourth part (ff. 171r-173v) was written in the 15th century. Con...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4098. Harley MS 3527
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3527
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Francesco Rinuccio Aretino, Translation of a Collection of Greek Letters; mid 15th cent. Latin. Copy. The MS. contains the translation into Latin of a collection of Greek letters attributed to Hippocrates and others made by Francesco Rinuccio Aretino (1395-after 1456), also known as Rinuccio ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
4099. Harley MS 6205
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6205
- Title:
- François Desmoulins de Rochefort, Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (Book I)
- Scope & Content:
- Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique (Commentaries on the Gallic War) was written by François Desmoulins de Rochefort (d. 1526), a Franciscan friar, almoner and preceptor to Francis I of France. Composed as a dialogue between Julius Caesar and the king of France, on the responsibilities of an ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1519
- Extent:
-
1 volume
4100. Harley MS 3335
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3335
- Title:
- Breviary, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Breviary, Use of Sarum, including only Psalter and Sanctorale; begins imperfectly in Psalm 89:11: '[po]testatem ire tue et pre timore tuo'; ends imperfectly in the office of St Michael: 'Michael archangele veni in adiutorio populo dei […] v. et descendit...' Decoration: ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume