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1741. Harley MS 2667, ff 161r-166v)

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2667, ff 161r-166v)
Title:
Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae
Scope & Content:
Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae, attributed here to Alanus [ab Insula (Alain de Lille)], rubric: 'Incipit liber primus de arte fidei catholice agens de una omnium causa id est de uno deo eodemque trino triginta continens propositiones. alanus; incipit (prologue): 'Huius rem nominis de i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
6 folios.

1742. Harley MS 2668

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2668
Title:
Scope & Content:
Letters: Medicine and Surgery: Sermons: Composite collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons: 15th cent., 1st half: Lat. and Enm: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1743. Harley MS 2669

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2669
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1-204v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. f. 205 is a medieval parchment flyleaf. Copious notes in an early-modern hand. Decoration: 10 large decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 24v, 44r, 55v, 78r, 96v, 117r, 135r, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1744. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1745. Harley MS 2672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2672
Title:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8, incipit: '[F]acturus ne sim operae pretium si a primordio'. Decoration: Plain initials in dark brown ink (f. 51r), outlined initials (ff. 108r, 151r), or spaces left for initials at the beginning of books (ff. 1r, 26v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

1746. Harley MS 2673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2673
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Ovid, Metamorphoses (ending imperfectly at Book 15, line 411, 'Id quoque quod ventis animal nutritur et aura', due to loss of leaves). Decoration: Large initial in colours with a putto and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a partial border (f. 1r). L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

1747. 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

1748. Harley MS 2675

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2675
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy); ff. 16r-44r: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 15v: an unidentified text (possibly a commentary on Sallust's history). [f. 44v is blan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1400
Extent:
1 volume

1749. Harley MS 2676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2676
Title:
Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a very large white vine initial 'L'(ibros) in colours and gold at the beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465-1467
Extent:

356 folios.

1750. Harley MS 2677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2677
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold of Pliny writing in his study, and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, combined with a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1457-1458
Extent:
509 folios.

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