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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Subject Classical Literature Place St Albans, England

1. Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 2-34

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 2-34
Title:
Prudentius, Psychomachia (illustrated); Poem in praise of St Laurence
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i verso: Modern notes related to Prudentius: 'Prudentius, poeta, vir Christianus'. f. 1r: An early 14th-century table of contents including modern additions, followed by some lines dedicated to Prudentius. ff. 2r-34r: Prudentius, Psychomachia with drawings (see 'Decoration'), be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Titus D XVI

2. Egerton MS 654

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 654
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Harley MS 2624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex