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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language Latin Name Mestrius Plutarchus, Lucius, c 46-after 120, http://isni.org/isni/000000...

1. Harley MS 2569

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2569
Title:
Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem and Apophtegmata laconica; Guarino da Verona, Dedifferentia veri amici et adulatoris; Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-47r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem; introduced by a letter of Francesco Filelfo (b. 1398, d. 1481), to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (r. 1412, d. 1447). ff. 48r-75r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata laconica; translated by Francesco Filelfo and by Guarino da Verona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2631
Title:
Cicero, De senectute; Paradoxa stoicorum; Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Invectiva ad hypocritas; Cicero Novus; Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis, in a Latin translation by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; Demosthenes, De Chersoneso; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; De amicitia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of classical and humanistic texts including a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes, and a biography of Cicero by the Italian historian and statesman Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (b. 1370...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427-1430
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 3208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3208
Title:
Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler, in Spanish translation
Scope & Content:
An elegant copy of the Spanish translation of an excerpt from Plutarch's treatise To an Uneducated Ruler (Ad principem ineruditum), possibly presented to a Spanish king (either Philip II or one of his successors, Philip III or Philip IV). ff. 1r-11v: Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler, in Spanish...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1580-1640
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 3398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3398
Title:
Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum, and Apophthegmata Laconica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-45r: Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum; translated from Greek into Latin by Francesco Filelfo in 1437, with his prefatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (ff. 2r-3v). ff. 46r-84v: Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica; translated from Greek into Latin by Frances...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3426
Title:
Humanistic miscellany, including select lives from Plutarch's Parallel lives
Scope & Content:
A humanist anthology of classical and patristic Greek authors translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni. Contents: ff. 1r-134v: Select lives from Plutarch, Parallel lives, translated by Leonardo Bruni. ff. 1r-37r: Life of Antonius, with preface. ff. 37r-56v: Life of Pyrrhus. ff. 56v-73r: Lif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 3485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3485
Title:
Plutarch, Parallel Lives
Scope & Content:
This 15th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, written by the Greek philosopher and writer Plutarch (b. 46, d. after 119). The biographies are arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1478
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3949
Title:
Collection of Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript, the first part of which (ff. 1-71) contains a humanistic miscellany comprising Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts, the second (ff. 72-103) preserves humanist Latin translations of Greek works relating to Classical education. Contents: ff. 1r-69v: written by Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1430-1455
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 4150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4150
Title:
Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume