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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2550
Title:: Propertius, Elegies
Scope & Content:: A humanist copy of the poetry of Propertius from Renaissance Florence. Contents: ff. lr-82v: Propertius, Elegies, books 1-4. The title. 'Propertii aurelii nautae liber foeliciter incipit' has been added by a second scribe, who also wrote ff. 39r-82r. Decoration: No initials executed. Rubrica...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2559
Title:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-34v: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 34r: Marginal commentary, accessus fragment, and Vita Boetii by William of Conches with interlinear notes; added by a contemporary hand (see Codices Boethiani, I (1995), pp. 139-40 (no. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2659
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius) by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also contains several works attributed to Seneca, including the Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2691
Title:: Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a number of works by the Italian humanist teacher, scholar, and translator Guarino da Verona (b. 1370, d. 1460), including his Latin translation of Pseudo-Plutarch's De liberis educandis, which he dedicated to his student Angelo Corbinelli (d. 1419). Contents: ff. 1r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2777
Title:: Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:: It is likely that this manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid, a text that was commonly used for teaching Latin grammar through Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, was made specifically for the use of a teacher in the classroom. This is indicated by its unusually tall and narrow dimensions, which makes i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2791
Title:: The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with gloss
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-92v: The Gospel of Matthew with gloss, beginning: 'Jer. Mathaeus cum primo praedicasset evangelium'; with a list of capitula (ff. 92r-92v) ff. 93r-147r: The Gospel of Mark with gloss, beginning: 'Marcus petri discipulus rogatu Romanorum evangelium scripsit'; with a list of ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2806
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-472v: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 431r-472v). The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1r, 2r, 474r-474v: A list of contents in various hands, added texts in Latin; 13th and 14th century? f. 475v: A list of payments, li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2807
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-336r: Bible (without the Psalms); The Prologue to Esdras (f. 129v) is immediately followed by Proverbs, Esdras begins on f. 240 after another prologue on f. 239v (following Esther). Numbered subdivisions in the Gospels. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-2r: Post...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2809
Title:: Bible without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 6r-362v: Bible without the Psalms, imperfect. The manuscript contains various additions: Numerous marginal annotations in medieval hands. f. 1r: Prayers to the Virgin Mary ('Ave Maria gracia plena'); added in the (?) 13th century. f. 1v: A list of 'Apocripha'; added in the (?...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2817
Title:: Book of Job; commentary on Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae; Warner von Basel, Synodus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is composed of three originally separate parts. The first part (ff. 1v-32v) contains the Book of Job with prefatory material by St Jerome (d. 420), possibly made in the Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium). The second part (ff. 33r-48v) contains an anonymous gloss on Priscian ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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