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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language Latin Place Central Italy

1. Harley MS 2425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2425
Title:
Francesco Matarazzo, Funeral oration for Leonardus Perusinus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Francesco Matarazzo (d. 1518), Funeral oration for Leonardus Perusinus. Decoration: Historiated initial in gold and colours with a man holding a book, with a bar extending along the text (f. 1). Gold initial on a blue ground decorated with gold (f. 1).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2448

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2448
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 14r-93r: Hours of the Virgin Mary ('Officium sancta marie virginis secundum consuetudinem romane curie'). ff. 94r-153v: Office of the Dead ('Officium in agenda mortuorum'). ff. 154r-189v: Hours of the Passion ('Officium sacratissimae passonis domini nos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1480
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 2517

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2517
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-55v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. Decoration: Large initial in gold and colours with acanthus leaves and naturalistic flowers extending into the margins at the beginning of book 1 (f. 1r). A very large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2527

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2527
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-161r: Terence, Comoediae. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1v: Inscriptions, including: 'Quid est comedia, comedia est imitation vite, speculum consuetudinis, et imago veritatis'; and 'Omnium rerum vicissitude est'; added in the (?) 16th century. f. 2r: Aelius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1471
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2581
Title:
Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus], Ars poetica. ff. 10r-52v: Horace, Satires. ff. 53r-83v: Horace, Epistulae. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1*recto: An Italian inscription: 'Se questo libro asorta si p[re]dessi a ?dapitassi allemane di p[er]sona che no[n...
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

6. Harley MS 2618

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2618
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-89v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione; ff. 90r-168v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; ff. 169r-185r: Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium. f. 185v is blank. Decoration: 2 white vine initials in gold and colours with decoration extending into the margin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2695

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2695
Title:
Collection of classical and humanistic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of classical texts, including works by the Roman poets Virgil (b. 70, d. 19 BC) and Ovid (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18) and the Christian poet Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 325). It also includes a Latin translation of the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. 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

9. Harley MS 2903

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2903
Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome, with a Psalter and litanies
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including: ‘Aniceti’ (Pope Saint Anicetus), ‘Petri de murrone’ (St Peter of Morrone, also known as Pope Celestine V; 19 May, Abruzzi, Central Italy), ‘Marie ad nives’ (in red, 5 August, Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome), the dedication of the basilica of St Saviour (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1447-c 1475
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 3046

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3046
Title:
Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-300v: Collection of sermons, entitled: 'Omeliae divi Hieronimi Gregorii aliorumque doctorum felic. Incipium'. Includes sermons by John Chrysostom (ff. 24v-27r; 205v-209r; 270v-272r; 278r-283r), Origen (ff. 53r-55v; 192r-196v; 251r-259r) and Gregory of Nazianzus (ff. 219r-222r;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1491
Extent:
1 volume