Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Name: Chamberlayne, John, translator and literary editor, 1666-1723 / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2670
Title:: Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2752
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius), a collection of 124 letters written by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65) towards the end of his life. Contents: ff. 1r-89r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2754
Title:: Virgil, Opera
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12r: Virgil, Eclogues. ff. 12r-41r: Virgil, Georgics. ff. 42r-174r: Virgil, Aeneid. ff. 41v and 174v are blank. Decoration: 12 very large initials in blue and red with red and brown pen-flourishing (ff. 42r, 52v, 63r, 72v, 82, 93v, 105v, 116v, 126v, 137v, 149v, 161v)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3217
Title:: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-77v: Julian of Toledo (b. 642, d. 690), Prognosticon futuri saeculi libri tres (Prognostics on future ages, in three books); ff. 1r-2v, 77r-v are written in an Italian humanist hand and were added in the 16th century to replace lost leaves (see Hillgarth, Sancti Iuliani Toletan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3256
Title:: Gratian, Decretum
Scope & Content:: Gratian, Decretum, with marginal glosses of the 4th composition (see Dolezalek 2002), partly by Rufinus. The manuscript is composed of portions of different dates and origin which were assembled to form a collection of exemplar-peciae of the Decretum (see Rouse and Rouse 1990). The manuscript is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4334
Title:: Girard de Roussillon, Chanson de geste
Scope & Content:: Contents: Girard or Girart de Roussillon, a chanson de geste, imperfect at the beginning and the end, with a lacuna of at least 3 quires after f. 37 and leaves missing after ff. 24, 30 and 43. There are 3,480 lines remaining out of a total of 10,000. Girard de Roussillon was governor of the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4984
Title:: Collection of texts about St Martin of Tours: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini, Epistolae, Dialogi (books 1-3); Gregory of Tours, De Virtutibus Sancti Martini and Libri Octo Miraculorum
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours (d. 397) by Sulpicius Severus (b. c. 363, d. c. 425) and Gregory of Tours (b. c. 538, d. 594). The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contempo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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