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1831. Harley MS 2760

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2760
Title:
Vitruvius, De architectura
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De architectura (On architecture), a treatise by the Roman author and architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (b. c. 80–70 BC, d. after c. 15 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Vitruvius, De architectura. f. 77v is blank. Decoration: A diagram of a wind rose in the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1832. Harley MS 2761

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2761
Title:
Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the three major works of the Roman poet Virgil (b. 70 BC, d. 19 BC): Bucolica (Bucolics), Georgica (Georgics), and Aeneid. The manuscript has been attributed to the Italian scribe Giovanfrancesco Marzi of San Gimignano (b. 1440, d. after 1494). Contents: ff. 1r-35r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1833. Harley MS 2763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2763
Title:
Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1834. Harley MS 2764

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2764
Title:
Tacitus, Annales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-168: Tacitus, Annales. The gold initial 'I'(n) on f. 1 is an addition, cut from another manuscript and pasted into the original white vine border. Originally, the sentence would have read: 'Nam Valerium Asiaticum, bis consulem, fuisse quondam adulterum ejus credidit…' (Tacitus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1452
Extent:
1 volume

1835. Harley MS 2765

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2765
Title:
Orosius, Florus, Caesar, Hadrianus and other texts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

1836. Harley MS 2766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2766
Title:
Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis
Scope & Content:
Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis. Decoration: Initials in red. Place left for an initial at the beginning of the prologue (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
48 folios (including 1 blank folio after f. 2).

1837. Harley MS 2767

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2767
Title:
Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1838. Harley MS 2768

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2768
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources. Contents: ff. 1r-297v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae (Attic Nights). [ff. 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1839. Harley MS 2769

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2769
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-2v: A former pastedown and flyleaf, with an added 15th-century table of contents and prologue. ff. 3r-196v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, with commentary. f. 197r-v was originally blank leaf with added 15th-century text. Added annotations throughout. Decoration: Large initial in co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1840. Harley MS 2770

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2770
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'. ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

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