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51. Harley MS 2676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2676
Title:
Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a very large white vine initial 'L'(ibros) in colours and gold at the beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465-1467
Extent:

356 folios.

52. Harley MS 2677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2677
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold of Pliny writing in his study, and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, combined with a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1457-1458
Extent:
509 folios.

53. Harley MS 2686

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2686
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text. The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (ff. 1r-4v) (PL, 83, cols. 908D-914...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

1 volume

54. Harley MS 2766

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2766
Title:
Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis
Scope & Content:
Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis. Decoration: Initials in red. Place left for an initial at the beginning of the prologue (f. 1r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
48 folios (including 1 blank folio after f. 2).

55. Harley MS 3015

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3015
Title:
Miscellany including Bede's De Natura Rerum
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript including: A list of contents (f. 1v); John Chrysostom, Homilies 1-30 (ff. 2r-62r); Augustine of Hippo, Sermones (Sermo 173) (ff. 63r- 64v); Isidore of Seville, De Differentis (ff. 65v-89r); Bede, De Natura Rerum (ff. 90r-99r); Anselm, De libero arbitrio (ff. 100r-10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:
108 folios.

56. Harley MS 3017

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3017
Title:
Miscellany of computistical and astronomical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of computistical and astronomical texts including: Somniale Danielis (fragment) (ff. 1r-1v); Calendarium (ff. 2r-21r); Calendar (ff. 21v-32v); Calendarium of decennovenal cycles (ff. 32v-42r); Collection of computistical formulas (ff. 42v-50r); An excerpt from Isidore, Etymolo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
800-924
Extent:

1 volume

57. Harley MS 3022

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3022
Title:
Collection of texts on theology, instruction and natural history
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum (ff. 1r-32r); 2. Aristotle, De natura animalium (ff. 32v-54v); 3. The Life of St Veridianus (ff. 55r-57v); 4. Cassiodorus, Varia (ff. 57v-67v); 5. Cassiodorus, De anima (ff. 68r-79v); 6. Augustine, Speculu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

139 folios.

58. Harley MS 3035

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3035
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text (ff. 1r-47r, 63v-264r). The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between St. Isidore and Braulio Bishop o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1495
Extent:
265 folios.

59. Harley MS 3092

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3092
Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis and De computo
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two works by Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis (ff. 2r-28r) and De computo (ff. 29r-39v), with an added table of contents (f. 1r). Decoration: Chapters, books and paragraphs start with bigger initials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
39 folios.

60. Harley MS 3099

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3099
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains: 1. Isidore of Seville Etymologiae, an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text, preceded by (ff. 1r-3v) five letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (ff. 1v-153r); 2. Isidore of Seville, De natur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1130-1174
Extent:
168 folios.