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1691. Harley MS 2626

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2626
Title:
Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-112r: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae (Tusculan Disputations). Decoration: A large white vine initial in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 3r, 28v, 43v, 63v, 85r). Space for a smaller initial left blank (f. 65v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1692. Harley MS 2627

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2627
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-20r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia (On Friendship). [f. 20v is blank]. Decoration: Large initial in green and blue ink with reserved designs (f. 1r). 4 coloured initials in green ink (ff. 2r, 7r, 11v, 15v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1693. Harley MS 2628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2628
Title:
Cicero, De officiis, and other minor works
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's selected works from mid-15th-century Italy. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis (books 1-3), copied by Blasius Axeretinus in 1433. ff. 87r-89r: List of contents and colophon of De officiis. ff. 90r-106v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De senectute. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1694. Harley MS 2629

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2629
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius), a book on rhetoric formerly attributed to the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-134r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. [f. 134v is blank]. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1695. Harley MS 2630

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2630
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; De senectute; Paradoxica stoicorum; Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): De amicitia (On friendship), De senectute (On old age), Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes), and the Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio). Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Cicero, De ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1696. Harley MS 2631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2631
Title:
Cicero, De senectute; Paradoxa stoicorum; Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Invectiva ad hypocritas; Cicero Novus; Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis, in a Latin translation by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; Demosthenes, De Chersoneso; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; De amicitia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of classical and humanistic texts including a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes, and a biography of Cicero by the Italian historian and statesman Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (b. 1370...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427-1430
Extent:
1 volume

1697. Harley MS 2632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2632
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina; Epodi; Carmen saeculare
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the selected works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), commonly known as Horace. The texts feature extensive marginal commentary. Contents: f. 1r: Vita Horatii (Life of Horace), imperfect, with a number of added pen trials; ff. 2r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1698. Harley MS 2633

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2633
Title:
Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, with added glosses. Decoration: 7 diagrams or maps in brown ink: the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1699. Harley MS 2634

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2634
Title:
Titus Maccius Plautus, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of a number of Latin comedies written by the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus (b. c. 254, d. 184 BC): Amphitryon, Asinaria (The One with Asses), Captivi (The Captives), Curculio (The Weevil), Casina, Cistellaria (The Casket), Epidicus and Aulularia (The Litt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1700. Harley MS 2636

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2636
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: unruled parchment flyleaf with inscription. f. 2r: inscription f. 2v: Prologue to Statius’s Thebaid, begins ‘Associat profugum...,’ ends ‘…et ignes.’ ff. 3r-108v: Statius, Thebaid, begins ‘Fraternas...’. ends ‘…honores. Thebaidos xii liber explicit.’. ff. 108v-109r: Excer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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