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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Name Petrarca, Francesco, poet, 1304-1374 Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 2475

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2475
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments; Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino; Cicero, Orationes; Vegetius, De re militari
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works by Classical authors, including Cicero, Sallust, Vegetius, and the playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), commonly known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Petrarch, Vita Terentii (Life of Terence), imperfect at the begin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2493

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2493
Title:
Titus Livius, Ab Urbe condita (the 'Codex Aginnensis')
Scope & Content:
The copy of Titus Livius, Ab Urbe condita known as 'Codex Aginnensis' or 'Codex Agenensis' because of the ownership inscription of the Jesuit College in Agen (f. 1r); imperfect, the initial and final quires are missing; incipit: 'ipsius quoque tribunis' (III lv 6); explicit: 'facinoris decus ad ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century-c 1329
Extent:
313 folios.

3. Harley MS 2525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2525
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-96r: Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae. ff. 96r-96v: Petrarch, Vita Terentii. This manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-1*v, 97r-97v: various notes and scribbles in late-medieval hands. [f. 1*r is blank. Decoration: Numerous initials in red and blue. Running title...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2526
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Petrarch, Vita Terentii. f. 5r: Epitaphium Terentii. ff. 5r-130v: Terence, Comoediae. Partial border and large initial in colours and gold (f. 5v). Other large initials in colours and gold (ff. 26v, 49r, 70v, 92v, 111r). 2 smaller initials in gold on blue and red, or bl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1456
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2541

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2541
Title:
Sallust, Catilina and Jugurtha, with letters of Petrarch and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-34v: C. Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), Catilina, title: 'CRISPI SALUSTI LIBER DE BELLO CATILINARIO INCIPIT FOELICITER', incipit: 'Omnis homines qui sese student.' ff. 35v-100r: C. Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), Jugurtha, rubric: 'Eiusdem Salustii de bello Iugurtino Liber', incip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2614

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2614
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
Contents: The text written by written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis: colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r). Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers ff. 1r-3v: P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 3264

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3264
Title:
Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3436
Title:
Theological miscellany including Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi
Scope & Content:
Theological miscellany containing late medieval and early Christian hagiographical texts along with works and letters by Italian humanists. Contents: f. 1r: Inscriptions. f. 1v: Added inscription: 'Nobili domino Ambrosio Spinula d. Stefani'. ff. 2r-44r: Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de mort...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 3442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3442
Title:
Petrarch, Il canzoniere; Trionfi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Il canzoniere (Song book) and Trionfi (Triumphs), two poetry collections by the Italian humanist, scholar, and poet Francesca Petrarca (b. 1304, d. 1374), commonly known as Petrarch. The scribe was responsible for two other Petrarchan manuscripts: Bodleian Library, MSS...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 3454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3454
Title:
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Opuscula
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-90v: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Opuscula. Decoration: Border with floral motifs in gold, silver, and colours, with pen-flourishing in brown ink, a coat of arms in the lower margin, and a large historiated initial in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch seated (f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1398
Extent:
1 volume

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