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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2781
Title:: Livy, De secundo bello Punico
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-159r: Titus Livius Patavinus (b. 59 BC, d. AD 17), also known as Livy, De secundo bello Punico (On the second Punic War). Decoration: Small initials in blue and red at the beginning of the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1461
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2782
Title:: Servius, Commentary on Virgil; a variorum commentary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-164v: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Georgica (ff. 1r-28r) and the Aeneis (ff. 28r-164v); lacking the commentary for the Ecloga; the text is edited, corrected, glossed, marked for mythological information, provided with NOTA monograms and headings, as well as interspersed and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2783
Title:: Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello civili
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of De Bello civili (On the Civil War), commonly referred to as the Pharsalia, an epic poem by the Roman poet Lucan (b. 39, d. 69), detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great. Contents: ff. 1r-127r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1466
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2784
Title:: Cicero, De officiis; Paradoxica stoicorum; De amicitia; De senectute; Lactantius, De vero cultu; Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-45v: Cicero, De officiis (On duties). ff. 46r-51v: Cicero, Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic paradoxes). ff. 52r-64r: Cicero, De amicitia (On friendship). ff. 64r-74v: Cicero, De senectute (On old age). ff. 75r-99r: Lactantius, De vero cultu (Bk. VI of the Institutiones Divi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2785
Title:: Choir Breviary (winter part), use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the winter part of a choir Breviary: ff. 1r-169v: Temporale (From Advent to Pentecost), with blessings for the whole year (ff. 168r-169v). ff. 170r- 175v: Calendar, including the following saints: David and Chad (in black), Wulstan, Batildis, Edward, Cuthbert, Edmund, J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2786
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-439v: Bible, including the Psalms. The Prologue and the beginning of Genesis are missing. Various parts are in later 15th-century hands: ff. 208r-209v: prologues to the Psalter; ff. 232r-259r: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus; ff. 440r-441v: prologues to St Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2787
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Missal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation; damaged and beginning and ending imperfectly; beginning with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) with numerous English saints, including, in red: Wulstani, Edwardi, Cuthberte, Ricardi, Georgii, Dunstani, Aldelmi, translation of Edmund, Barn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2788
Title:: Gospels (the 'Harley Golden Gospels')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes four Gospels, known as the 'Golden Gospels', 'Harley Golden Gospels', or 'Codex Aureus', with canon tables (ff. 6v-12r), and capitulary (ff. 199r-208v). Decoration: Canon tables in colours and gold, with the symbols of the Evangelists, animals, and columns (ff. 6v-12r)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex; 208 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2789
Title:: Bible, Proverbs to Apocalypse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-13r: Proverbs, with preface and capitula, imperfect in the middle (Proverbs 25-29 are not included). ff. 13v-17v: Ecclesiastes, with capitula. ff. 18r-20r: Song of Songs. ff. 20r-29r: Wisdom, with capitula. ff. 29r-53r: Sirach, with preface and capitula. ff. 53r-80r: Isa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2790
Title:: The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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