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2891. Harley MS 1879

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1879
Title:
Catalogues of the books of Henry Savile of Banke, Robert Bruce Cotton, and John Dee
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Catalogue of the library of Henry Savile of Banke (d. 1617) in English and Latin, written in the hand of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. f. 10v: List of books wanted by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, headed: 'Books I want', fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1583-c 1612
Extent:
1 volume

2892. Harley MS 2427

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2427
Title:
Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
Scope & Content:
Language : Hebrew The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation. Tehilim. תהילים Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1799
Extent:
161 folios (ii+161+iii)

2893. Harley MS 2512

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2512
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-264v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares; ending with an inscription in Greek ('τέλος'). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 265r: A poem, headed: 'In virtutis laudem'; added in the (?) 15th century. f. 265v: A note: 'Corectio ad amicus'; added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2894. Harley MS 2674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2674
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2895. Harley MS 2682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2682
Title:
Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, Laelius de amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute, various speeches (including Philippicae, Orationes in Catilinam, Pro Marcello), Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Officiis; Pseudo-Quintus Tullius Cicero, De petitione consulatus; Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Sallusti; Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola magni Alexandri ad Aristotelem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, containing mainly works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), has long been an important source for scholarship and textual criticism on Cicero’s works. It was first collated in the late-16th century by the Flemish jurist and humanist François Modius (b. 1556, d. 1597)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

2896. Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688
Title:
A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Carmen saeculare; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Satires; Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Boethius, De musica
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany made of five texts of different dates and origins (ff. 1-16; 17-22; 23-46; 47-54; 55-66), probably bound together after Edward Harley acquired the last part (ff. 55-66). Each text is separated by unfoliated parchment interleaves, which remain blank. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2897. Harley MS 2715

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2715
Title:
Macrobius, Saturnalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191r: Macrobius, Saturnalia. [f. 191v is blank]. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours and gold of a banquet at the beginning of the text, combined with a three-sided border with foliate decoration, flowers, musician putti, birds and a lion holding coats of arms, in the low...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2898. Harley MS 2719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2719
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2899. Harley MS 2735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2735
Title:
Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:
The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2900. Harley MS 2747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2747
Title:
Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-2 and ff. 107-110: Numerous added records in Italian in one hand, mostly relating to accounts, 16th century: sales (of wheat, etc.), lists of purchases, of letters written to various persons, mention of a donation towards the restoration of a church ( 'la donatione di m^a^ Maria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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