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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2654
Title:: Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-57r : Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti,with glosses. f. 57v: Numerous Latin grammar exercises in various hands. Decoration: Several small initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2655
Title:: Ovid, Fasti
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Ovid, Fasti. ff. 50v-53r: an astrological calendar (January to July). f. 53v: commentary on Ovid, Fasti (beginning 'In principio uniuscuiusque autoris quinque sunt inquirenda que materia, que intentio'). Decoration: Initials in red ink with a pattern of circles an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2656
Title:: Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments; Vita Terencii; Epitaphium Terencii
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a 12th-century copy of six comedies written by the playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), also known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments, including: ff. 1r-12r: Andria (The Girl from Andros). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2657
Title:: Sallust, Catilina; Jugurtha; Epitome historiarum Trogi Pompeii; Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16r: Sallust, Catilina. ff. 16r-46r: Jugurtha. ff. 46r-137v: Sallust, Epitome historiarum Trogi Pompeii. ff. 138r-176v: Epitoma de Tito Livio, the explicit followed by 4 verses: 'Roma vetus veteres […] Quorum consilio precipitata ruis' . The text written by Giovanni di Pi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1442
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2658
Title:: Historia Augusta
Scope & Content:: Biographies of Roman emperors, their heirs, and usurpers from Hadrian (76-138) to Numerian (d. 284), often spurious, and attributed to six authors also of doubtful authenticity (Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Vulcacius Gallicanus, Aelius Lampridius, Trebellius Pollio, Flavius Vopiscus Sy...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2660
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:: The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text. Isidore of Seville's De natura rerum (ff. 33r-48v), a short treatise on physics, astronomy and geography, composed aro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1136
Extent:: 175 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2661
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX
Scope & Content:: Copy of Valerius Maximus’ Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings), with a brief gloss. The leaves have been trimmed, removing some of the gloss (e.g. f. 10v). ff. 1r-94r: Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX. ff. 31v-32r: a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2662
Title:: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratorio
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Institutio Oratorio (Institutes of Oratory), a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (b. c. 35, d. c. 100), also known as Quintilian. The text features marginal annotations, many written in Greek. Contents: ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:: 1434
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2663
Title:: Livy, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Livy, Ab urbe condita, written by two scribes, possibly Michael de Salvaticis (ff. 1r-103v) and Taddeo Querino of Brescia (ff. 104r-151v), in 1454: colophon, 'die Lune 10 Marcii 1454 incepi presentem scribere' (f. 1r). f. 152: A ruled parchment leaf , inscribed: 'nomem ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1454
Extent:: 1 volume

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