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1451. Harley MS 2485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2485
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-197v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Originally 8 decorated initials: 6 have been excised (ff. 22r, 40r, 51r, 91r, 111r, 147r). The 2 remaining decorated initials in blue, magenta, and green with floral sprays and bezants (ff. 130r, 163r). Initials in red or bl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1460
Extent:
1 volume

1452. Harley MS 2519

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2519
Title:
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Preface. ff. 3v-13v: Table of contents. ff. 14r-80v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; ending: 'Explicit liber Avicij Mansii Severini Boecij Exconsularis Ordinarij Patricij de consolacione philosophie - Magister W. fferon'. Decoration: Added ink sketch of a bear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1453. Harley MS 2607

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2607
Title:
Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), a collection of poetry written by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. The work was composed during Ovid's exile from Rome at the port city of Tomis, on the Black Sea. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1472
Extent:
1 volume

1454. Harley MS 2965

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2965
Title:
The Book of Nunnaminster
Scope & Content:
A decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels. The text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 7653 (the Harley Prayerbo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 1st quarter of 10th century
Extent:
1 volume

1455. Harley MS 3870

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3870
Title:
Seneca, Tragediae, with arguments
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains ten tragedies written by the Roman statesman and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. c. 4 BC, d. 65), commonly known as Seneca the Younger. Contents: f. 1r: Epitaphium Seneca, written on a paper label in the same hand as the rest of the manuscript. f. 2r: a copy of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1402
Extent:
1 volume

1456. Harley MS 4144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4144
Title:
Lorenzo Valla, Select works
Scope & Content:
A copy of Lorenzo Valla's (1407-1457) three orations possibly from 15th-century Naples, written by Giovanmarco Cinico. Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Lorenzo Valla, Apology to Pope Eugen IV, begins 'Aequius erat summe pontifex....'. f. 38v: blank. ff. 39r-57r: Lorenzo Valla, Aliud Siculum aliud Neap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1470
Extent:
1 volume

1457. Harley MS 4862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4862
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-122r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera (Works). [f. 122v is blank]. Decoration: 1 white vine border bounded by gold lines, on a coloured ground, including an author portrait of Horace in a roundel, 2 putti, and an unidentified coat of arms, with a large initial in gold, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:

1 volume

1458. Harley MS 474

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 474
Title:
A Booke of the Justices of Peace and other Commissioners
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A page with the title ‘A Booke of the Justices of Peace and other Commissioners’. ff. 2r-67r: A list of names entitled ‘The Highe Sheriffs of the Severall Counties 1585’. ff. 68r-69r: A list of names entitled ‘The Lieuetenants and their Deputies in the severall Counties’. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1585
Extent:
1 volume

1459. Harley MS 568

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 568
Title:
Survey of and tracts relating to the Honor of Tutbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7r: Names of villages and their officials in the Honor of Tutbury, covering parts of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire, here entitled: ‘Nomina Villarum de, aut infra Honor. de Tutbury, Altum-Peccum, et Castle-Dunningtone, cum membris in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1460. Harley MS 1055

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1055
Title:
Funeral poems for Sir James Weston, Baron of the Exchequer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page: ‘Honors Monument: Or Faire vertues Record – In perpetuall Remembrance of the Generous worthy and Religious Sir James Weston Baron of the Eschequier etceterae’. ff. 2r-3v: A letter to the recipient of the manuscript, entitled: ‘The Epistle Dedicatory – To the Rig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1633
Extent:
1 volume

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