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1. Arundel MS 348, ff 102r-179v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 348, ff 102r-179v
Title:
Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 102r-179v: Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione (On Invention), ending imperfect (see the catchword on f. 179v). Decoration: Marginal drawings including faces, hands, busts, and animals (e.g., ff. 109v, 110v, 123v). Some of these drawings are for catchwords...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A part of Arundel MS 348

2. Burney MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 249
Title:
L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder), Controversiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-126v: L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder) (b. 54 BC, d. c. 39 AD), Controversiae (Disputes), with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, beginning: 'Exigitis rem magis iocumdam'. [ff. 127r-129v are blank]. Decoration: 37 large and medium calligraphic initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138
Title:
Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 86-138: Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i-ii. Decoration: Initials in red throughout. Display capitals in red (f. 86r). Marginal drawing of heads (ff. 93v, 100v, 106v, 123v). Manicula (ff. 105v, 116v, 122v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

4. Harley MS 2753

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2753
Title:
Claudianus Claudius, Carmina maiora; Carmina minora; De Raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works of the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), commonly known as Claudian. Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Claudianus Claudius, In Rufinum (Against Rufinus), with preface beginning, 'Phebeo domitus phiton'. ff. 6r-9r: Claudianus Claudius, De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2827
Title:
Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-458r: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 426r-458r). The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 459r-460v: Lections for liturgical feasts; added in the 14th century. ff. 460v-461r: A text on the life of Secundus the Silent (fl. 2nd century), beg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2997

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2997
Title:
Lectionary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-232: Lectionary. Decoration: Historiated initials in colours and gold occasionally extending into the margin with a crouching man or a dragon (Christ addressing an assembly (f. 1r), the Adoration of the Magi (f. 35r)). Initials in gold with blue an/ord red pen-flourishing, r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3520/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3520/1
Title:
Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions
Scope & Content:
The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts. Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3728

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3728
Title:
Astesanus of Asti, Summa de casibus conscientiae, with an index
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Summa de casibus conscientiae (Cases of conscience), a confessional work written by the Franciscan canon lawyer and theologian Astesanus of Asti (d. c. 1330). The text is divided into three books, each beginning with a list of contents. Contents: f. 1*v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 3815

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3815
Title:
Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-639v: Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 595r-639v). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-1*v: A list of biblical books, added in the (?) 14th century. ff. 302r, 310v, 367r: English inscriptions in different hands, added in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3861
Title:
Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Dialogus contra Judaeos (Dialogue against the Jews), written by the Jewish physician and astronomer Petrus Alphonsi (b. 1062 d. 1140), born Moses Sephardi, who converted to Christianity in 1106. The polemic takes the form of an imagined debate between his f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

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