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1. 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

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 4963

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4963
Title:
Flavius Josephus, De Bello Iudaico
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the last of four volumes comprising the Antiquae Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews), a history of the Jewish people, and De Bello Iudaico (On the Jewish War), an account of the First Jewish-Roman War, written by the historian Titus Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 100). This vol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 6504

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6504
Title:
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40r: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 40r: an inscription in a medieval hand on f. 40r: '[...] hic offert se et sivum librum Gulielmo ep[i]scop[o] nem[..]si[...]'. Numerous added annotations throughout, mainly in 15th-century h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. 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

6. Harley MS 4960

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4960
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae (Books 1-7)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of four volumes comprising the Antiquae Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews), a history of the Jewish people, and De Bello Iudaico (On the Jewish War), an account of the First Jewish-Roman War, written by the historian Titus Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 100). This vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 4961

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4961
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae (Books 8-13)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of four volumes comprising the Antiquae Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews), a history of the Jewish people, and De Bello Iudaico (On the Jewish War), an account of the First Jewish-Roman War, written by the historian Titus Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 100). This v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 4962

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4962
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae (Books 14-20)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the third of four volumes comprising the Antiquae Iudaicae (Antiquities of the Jews), a history of the Jewish people, and De Bello Iudaico (On the Jewish War), an account of the First Jewish-Roman War, written by the historian Titus Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 100). This vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. 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

10. 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