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1. Add MS 11943

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Title:
Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 11983

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Title:
Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1075-c 1125
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Add MS 47678

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Add MS 47678
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 98

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Arundel MS 98
Title:
Excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus, De viris illustribus; Prefatory epistle to the Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder, Epistula ad Vespasianum; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79)'s Historia naturalis (Natural History), preceded by an excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus (b. 69, d. 140), De viris illustribus (Concerning illustrious men). The manuscript was probably the first volume o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 261

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Harley MS 261
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:
This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 549

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Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2608

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Harley MS 2608
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the epic poem Thebais (Thebaid) by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (b. 45, d. 96). Contents: ff. 2r-110r: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais, with marginal and interlinear glosses, preceded by a verse of the 5th-century poet Coelius Sedulius (fl. 5th century): ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2624

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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

9. Harley MS 2652

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Harley MS 2652
Title:
Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2659
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius) by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also contains several works attributed to Seneca, including the Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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