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1501. Harley MS 2458

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2458
Title:
Goro d'Arezzo, Commentary on Lucan's Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
A late medieval copy of an early Renaissance commentary on Lucan's famous epic, the Pharsalia by the grammarian Goro d'Arezzo, who lived at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Contents: f. 1: Inscriptions. f. 2r: Epigram in 4 lines, extracted from the work known as Disticha Catonis (IV. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1466
Extent:
1 volume

1502. Harley MS 2459

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2459
Title:
Commentary on Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Commentary on Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico. Decoration: 7 large white vine initials in colours (early white vine type) at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 20v, 31r, 40v, 51v, 69v, 82v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1503. Harley MS 2460

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2460
Title:
Collection of classical texts, including Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-86r: Xenophon, Cyropaedia,in an unedited Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (see Lourdaux 1978), with a preface, rubric: 'In Xenophontis historiam de vita Cyri per Pogium vel ut quidam volunt per Franciscum Philelphum in latinum traductim prefatio', incipit: ‘Cum plures qu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1504. Harley MS 2461

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2461
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of ten Tragoediae (Tragedies) written by the Roman philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. c. 4 BC, d. 65). The text features interlinear and marginal annotations in a number of different hands. These possibly include (Ser) Dominicus Christophor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1416-1417
Extent:
1 volume

1505. Harley MS 2462

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2462
Title:
Collection of orations by Demosthenes and Aeschines, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
Scope & Content:
A collection of orations by two classical Greek orators, Demosthenes and Aeschines, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), with other rhetorical and grammatical works. Contents: ff. 1r-5r: Summaries (Argumenta) of the orations contained in the volume. ff. 5v-8v: Leonardo Bruni, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1506. Harley MS 2464

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2464
Title:
Petrus Isolellae, Summa grammaticae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Petrus Isolellae [de Isolella Cremonensis], Summa grammaticae. Decoration: Large historiated initial with the author Petrus Isolellae in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a full border; with a female figure in the lower margin and a kneeling ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1507. Harley MS 2465

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2465
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum, and Timaeus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 71r-71v: various notarial notes presumably entered by Iacobus ?Braca. ff. 2r-64v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) with marginal glosses throughout. The text has been written in two hands. The first hand is more elegant and was written on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1508. Harley MS 2466

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2466
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus), a collection of letters from the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC) to his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus (b. c. 110, d. 32 BC). According to an inscription on the first folio, the book was owned by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1509. Harley MS 2468

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2468
Title:
Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones and Paradoxa stoicorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78r: Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones (Tusculan Disputations); ff. 78r-85r: Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). [f. 85v is blank]. Decoration: Large white vine initials in gold or silver and colours at the beginning of the texts (ff. 1r, 78r). Smaller white vine ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1422
Extent:

1 volume

1510. Harley MS 2469

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2469
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia; Paradoxa Stoicorum; De Senectute; Timaeus; De Officiis; Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Institutione Morum; De Clementia; De Vita Beata
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia. ff. 12r-16v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum. ff. 16v-18r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Institutione Morum. ff. 19r-27r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute. ff. 27v-31v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Timaeus. ff. 32r-76v: Marcus Tu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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