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1771. Harley MS 2696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2696
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Three-sided floral border with a large white vine initial and an unidentified coat of arms in colours and gold (f. 1r). 5 smaller white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 12v, 35v, 42v, 44r, 48v). Initials in blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1772. Harley MS 2698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2698
Title:
Giles of Rome, De regimine principum; Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of De officiis (On duties), a treatise by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), featuring marginal and interlinear annotations. It is preceded by a fragment of Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum, a guide book for Christian tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1423
Extent:
1 volume

1773. Harley MS 2700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2700
Title:
Martial, Epigrams
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Epigrams by the Roman poet Martial (b. c. 41-d. c. 102). Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly working in Padua, and by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518). The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1774. Harley MS 2701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2701
Title:
Virgil, Bucolica; Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneis; Appendix
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added inscription 'G[irolamo?] Baruffaldi' ( f. 1), perhaps G[irolamo?] Baruffaldi (b. 1675, d. 1755) [of Ferrara?]. f. 1v: A pastedown includes an added inscription in Humphrey Wanley's hand, 'Hic codex olim fuit Aldi Manutij', and 'Andrea Haii Venetia 1722'. ff. 2r-19v: Vir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:
1 volume

1775. Harley MS 2702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2702
Title:
Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De re rustica, a work on agriculture by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (b. 116 BC, d. 27 BC). Contents: ff. 2r-245r: Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica (On agriculture). [ff. 1v and 245v are blank]. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours and gold, depi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1776. Harley MS 2703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2703
Title:
Ovid, Fasti, and Remedia amoris
Scope & Content:
A manuscript consisting of two parts that had been bound together by 1533 (see ‘Custodial history’). Both parts contain elegiac verse by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), and were probably written in Germany. The first part (ff. 1r-56v) dates to the 2nd half of the 12th century; the second part (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1777. Harley MS 2705

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2705
Title:
Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Epitome of the Histories of Pompeius Trogus) by the Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus (fl. 2nd century), also known as Justin. The manuscript's scribe Christoforo Schioppo of Verona was also responsible for Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1454
Extent:
1 volume

1778. Harley MS 2708

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2708
Title:
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus (To Augustus on his children and the rulers of the city of Rome), a Latin treatise on the great Roman families attributed to the general and literary patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (b. 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1779. Harley MS 2710

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2710
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Epodae; Carmen saeculares
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), also known as Horace. The Carmina feature extensive marginal and interlinear glossing. According to the manuscript's colophon (f. 106v), it was written by the scribe Angelus Ariminensem. C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1443
Extent:
1 volume

1780. Harley MS 2711

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2711
Title:
Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino; Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva in Franciscum Philelphum; Invectiva II in Franciscum Philelphum; Epistola ad Laurentium Aretinum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Sallust (b. 86, d. c. 35 BC): De coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy) and De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). It also includes two invectives by the Italian scholar and humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1449
Extent:
1 volume

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