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1751. Harley MS 2680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2680
Title:
Servius, Commentaries on Virgil
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-17r: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues (of Bucolica) rubric: 'INCIPIT EXPOSITIO SERVII GRAMMATICI IN BUCOLICIS VIRGILII MARONIS’, incipit: 'Bucolica ut ferunt a custodia boun.' ff. 17v-53v: Servius, Commentary on Virgil’s Georgics, rubric: 'EXPOSITIO SERVII GRAMMATICI IN LIBRIS GE...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1470
Extent:
Parchment codex

1752. Harley MS 2681

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2681
Title:
Cicero, Orationes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-305: Cicero, Orationes, copied from an edition published in Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz in 1471, according to Reeve, 'Manuscripts' (1983). Decoration: 1 half-page miniature with a man standing before an assembly, with a scribe writes down the proceedings, in the style of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1483
Extent:
1 volume

1753. Harley MS 2682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2682
Title:
Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, Laelius de amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute, various speeches (including Philippicae, Orationes in Catilinam, Pro Marcello), Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Officiis; Pseudo-Quintus Tullius Cicero, De petitione consulatus; Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Sallusti; Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola magni Alexandri ad Aristotelem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, containing mainly works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), has long been an important source for scholarship and textual criticism on Cicero’s works. It was first collated in the late-16th century by the Flemish jurist and humanist François Modius (b. 1556, d. 1597)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

1754. Harley MS 2683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2683
Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Commentarii de Bello Civili: Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino, De Bello Africano, and De Bello Hispanico.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100, d. 44 BC)'s Commentarii de Bello Gallico: his first-hand account of the Roman military campaigns in Gaul in seven books, supplemented with an eight book written by Aulus Hirtius (d. 43 BC), a legate of Caesar. The account is followed by Caesa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex.

1755. Harley MS 2684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2684
Title:
Livy, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-213: Livy, Ab urbe condita. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold and a wreath designed for a coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1)r. 9 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 24r, 48v, 69r, 89v, 109v, 131v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1756. Harley MS 2685

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2685
Title:
Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Mythologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and 10th-century interlinear and marginal glosses. ff. 24r-35v: Fulgentius Mythographus (fl. 500), Mythologiae (Mythologies), preceded by capitula (f. 24r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1757. Harley MS 2686

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2686
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
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. The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (ff. 1r-4v) (PL, 83, cols. 908D-914...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

1 volume

1758. Harley MS 2687

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2687
Title:
Cicero, Orationes in Verrem; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two collections of speeches by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). In Verrem (Against Verres) is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres (b. c. 120, d. 43 BC), the former gov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1759. Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688
Title:
A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Carmen saeculare; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Satires; Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Boethius, De musica
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany made of five texts of different dates and origins (ff. 1-16; 17-22; 23-46; 47-54; 55-66), probably bound together after Edward Harley acquired the last part (ff. 55-66). Each text is separated by unfoliated parchment interleaves, which remain blank. Con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1760. Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v
Title:
Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, (books 1-4) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Liudprand (b. c 922, d. c 972), bishop of Cremona, Antapodosis (Retribution), books 1-4, dedicated to Recemundus, bishop of Elvira, imperfect at the end, beginning: 'In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti incipit liber ανταπoδοσιν regum atque principum partis europe ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

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