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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2771
Title:: Cicero, Orator; De claris oratoribus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): Orator, his last work on rhetoric, written three years before his death, and De claris oratoribus (On famous orators), a history of Roman oratory. The anonymous scribe of the manuscript was also...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1430-c. 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772
Title:: Fragments of works by Virgil, Juvenal, Sedulius and Macrobius
Scope & Content:: A collection of Latin texs bound together: ff. 1r-15v: Virgil, Aeneid; ff. 16r-25v: Juvenal, Satires; ff. 26r-27v: Juvenal, Satires; ff. 28r-43v: Caelius Sedulius, Carmen paschale; ff. 44r-74v: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; ff. 75r-90v: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: A parchment codex, 90 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 1-15
Title:: Virgil, Aeneid, fragment
Scope & Content:: Virgil (Virgilius; Vergilius; Vergil), Aeneid, fragment of Books 7, 8, 10, and 11, with rubrics in red and initials in red or black. Paraphs and chapter numbers (in upper margins) added in black.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 15 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 16-25
Title:: Juvenal, Satires, fragment
Scope & Content:: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satires (Saturae, Satirae), Books 11.154-14.160 with interlinear gloss and marginal commentary in Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 10 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 26-27
Title:: Juvenal, Satires, fragment
Scope & Content:: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satires (Saturae, Satirae), books 13.234-14.110 with rubric and initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 28-43
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen paschale, fragment
Scope & Content:: Caelius Sedulius, Carmen paschale, fragment of Books 1-3, with interlinear and marginal gloss in Latin. Initials and rubrics originally in silver, now showing the red ground.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1050-1150
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 16 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 44-74
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, fragment
Scope & Content:: Contents: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, books 1.2.2-2.15.8, Decoration: Ink diagram of a Zodiac wheel with the earth at the centre (f. 61v). Round ink diagrams of the heavens (ff. 63v, 69r) and of the earth (f. 67v). A round map of the oceans and inhabited regions of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 31 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 75-90
Title:: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires, fragment
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires, books XI.153-XIV.110, V.49-VI.103 and IX.1- XI.146 with gloss.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773
Title:: Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of two parts of different date: ff. 1r-31v (+ the following unfoliated leaf) and ff. 32r-63v, and includes: ff. 1r-4v: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist. ff. 5r-31v: Diomedes, Artis Grammaticae Libri III. ff. 32r-60r: M. Tullius Cicero, Epist...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773, ff 1r-4v
Title:: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist
Scope & Content:: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist (transliterated in Latin alphabet), incipit: 'as assanon assis'. The list of the idiomata generum type including Latin words of which the Greek equivalent is of different gender.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

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