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61. Harley MS 2593

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2593
Title:
Giannozzo Manetti, De dignitate et excellentia hominis
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a copy of De dignitate et excellentia hominis (On the Dignity and Excellence of Man), a treatise written by the Italian politician and diplomat Giannozzo Manetti (b. 1396, d. 1459). The work in four books was a response to Pope Innocent III's De miseria humane conditionis (O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1455
Extent:
1 volume

62. Harley MS 2597

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2597
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline); ff. 28r-81v: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). Decoration: 1 white vine initial extending into a partial border in colours and gold, with birds; in the lower margin, white vine and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1450-1460
Extent:

1 volume

63. Harley MS 2626

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2626
Title:
Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-112r: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae (Tusculan Disputations). Decoration: A large white vine initial in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 3r, 28v, 43v, 63v, 85r). Space for a smaller initial left blank (f. 65v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

64. Harley MS 2630

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2630
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; De senectute; Paradoxica stoicorum; Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): De amicitia (On friendship), De senectute (On old age), Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes), and the Somnium Scipionis (Dream of Scipio). Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Cicero, De ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

65. Harley MS 2632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2632
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina; Epodi; Carmen saeculare
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the selected works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), commonly known as Horace. The texts feature extensive marginal commentary. Contents: f. 1r: Vita Horatii (Life of Horace), imperfect, with a number of added pen trials; ff. 2r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

66. Harley MS 2687

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2687
Title:
Cicero, Orationes in Verrem; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two collections of speeches by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). In Verrem (Against Verres) is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres (b. c. 120, d. 43 BC), the former gov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

67. Harley MS 2727

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2727
Title:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182r: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni (History of Alexander the Great). [f. 182v is blank]. Decoration: 1 historiated white vine initial with the head of a king (Alexander), with the white vine forming a partial border. The white vine border features 2 bu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

68. Harley MS 2733

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2733
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore and De Claris Oratoribus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory); ff. 60r-138r: Cicero, De Claris Oratoribus (On Famous Orators). [f. 138v is blank]. Decoration: 1 white vine partial border in colours and gold with flowers, a winged putto, birds, a gem, and 2 compartments with rabbits, combined w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1470-c. 1480
Extent:
1 volume

69. Harley MS 2757

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2757
Title:
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Historiae Alexandri Magni (Histories of Alexander the Great) by the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus (fl. 1st century). Contents: ff. 1r-180v: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni. Decoration: 1 white vine lower border and wreath en...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1450-c. 1460
Extent:
1 volume

70. Harley MS 2761

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2761
Title:
Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the three major works of the Roman poet Virgil (b. 70 BC, d. 19 BC): Bucolica (Bucolics), Georgica (Georgics), and Aeneid. The manuscript has been attributed to the Italian scribe Giovanfrancesco Marzi of San Gimignano (b. 1440, d. after 1494). Contents: ff. 1r-35r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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