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2331. Harley MS 5098

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5098
Title:
Constantinus Africanus, Theorica Pantegni
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

70 folios.

2332. Harley MS 665

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 665
Title:
Miscellany of rhetorics, grammar, theology, and medicine
Scope & Content:
Miscellany including Texts relating to Rhetorics, Grammar, Theology and Medicine, and other Prose and Verse; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Imperfect. A composite miscellany of rhetorical, grammatical and theological texts in Latin and occasional prose and verse in Middle English. The cata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2333. Harley MS 2270

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2270
Title:
Gesta Romanorum; Medulla grammaticae; Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of historical and grammatical texts, as follows: ff. 1r-85v: Gesta Romanorum. ff. 86r-194v: Medulla grammaticae. ff. 195r-236v: Repertorium vocabulorum Bibliae. The three texts were each copied around the same period in the late 15th century. There is no evide...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2334. Harley MS 2561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2561
Title:
Collection of texts on virtues and vices
Scope & Content:
A collection of Classical and Patristic texts by Renaissance authors, mainly excerpts, relating to virtues and vices. Contents: ff. 1r-5v: ‘Tabula Philosophi per Alphabetum’, begins ‘Abstinere a comestione nimia summa est medicina (libro de regimine principum)…’ An alphabetical list of citatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2335. Harley MS 2624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2336. Harley MS 2628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2628
Title:
Cicero, De officiis, and other minor works
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's selected works from mid-15th-century Italy. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis (books 1-3), copied by Blasius Axeretinus in 1433. ff. 87r-89r: List of contents and colophon of De officiis. ff. 90r-106v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De senectute. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2337. Harley MS 2763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2763
Title:
Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2338. Harley MS 3238

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3238
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2339. Harley MS 3151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3151
Title:
Regimen Animarum; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mathematica); a scientific text about astronomy; Ibn al-Daya (Haly), Commentary to Ptolemy's Centiloquium; Tractatus de planetis; a tract about music; a tract about illuminating manuscripts titled De Alluminatura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Regimen Animarum, imperfect at the end. According to the titulus, this part of the manuscript was written in 1343: 'Incipit liber qui vocatur animarum regimen compilatus in anno domini 1343. Incipit prologus'. ff. 24r-32v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1343 - 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2340. Harley MS 3433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3433
Title:
Verse treatises on natural philosophy entitled De principiis rerum naturalium and De rerum proprietatibus; Raffaello Maffei, Summary of Plato's Leges and Epinomis; Raffaello Maffei, Commentariorum urbanorum octo et triginta libri (extracts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-43v: The first part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 44r-88v: The second part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'Secunda pars huius tertie pars De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 89r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

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