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21. Harley MS 2474

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2474
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-166v: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold at the beginning of each book, with acanthus leaves, flowers, besants and brown pen-flourishing extending into the margin (ff. 1r, 13r, 38r), or more contained with foliate decoration and no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Harley MS 2482

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2482
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-205r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 205v, 206v: Latin annotations in various 15th-century hands, including a poem by Claudian (beginning: '(beginning: 'Nil adeo foedum est quod non exacta vetustas') and Martial (beginnin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

23. Harley MS 2483

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2483
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-247v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Historiated initial in colours of Seneca in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins, and, probably added in the 16th century, foliate decoration in the lower margin with a coat of arms with wolves on a gate t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

24. Harley MS 2496

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2496
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-83v: Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195, d. 159 BC), also known as Terence, Comoediae (Comedies), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 84v: Excerpts from Terence, Adelphoe (The Brothers). [ff. [83a]recto, [83a]verso, 84r are blank]. Decoration: Medium decorated initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465
Extent:

1 volume

25. Harley MS 2502

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2502
Title:
Virgil, Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneid (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-13r: Publius Vergilius Maro (b. 70, d. 19 BC), also known as Virgil, Eclogues (Bucolics). ff. 13r-46r: Virgil, Georgica (Georgics). ff. 47-136: Virgil, Aeneid (excerpts), with an excerpt of the ‘Epitome Illiados Homeri’ that elsewhere has been spuriously attributed to Pind...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:

1 volume

26. Harley MS 2509

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2509
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-186v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares, imperfect. Decoration: Numerous small initials in blue or red with dark red pen-flourishing. 7 initials have been excised (ff. 32r, 55r, 81r, 88r, 158r, 165r, 178r). Spaces for initials left blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

27. Harley MS 2512

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2512
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-264v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares; ending with an inscription in Greek ('τέλος'). The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. 265r: A poem, headed: 'In virtutis laudem'; added in the (?) 15th century. f. 265v: A note: 'Corectio ad amicus'; added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 2514

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2514
Title:
Papias, Ars grammatica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Papias, Ars grammatica. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including flowers and foliate motifs (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including flowers and foliate motifs (ff. 6r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 2518

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2518
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with a gloss at the start of the text. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 29r-31r: Erased text; perhaps a palimpsest. f. 31v: Added inscriptions in various hands including one on a scroll reading 'amore me port...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

30. Harley MS 2520

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2520
Title:
Sallust, The War with Catiline; The War with Jugurtha
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-79v: Sallust, The War with Catiline; The War with Jugurtha. Decoration: 2 large interlace initials in yellow or yellow and mauve ink (ff. 1r, 28r). Smaller plain initials in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume