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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2181
Title:: Medulla grammaticae and other texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript comprises the Medulla grammaticae (ff. 9r-94r) with additional texts and notes (ff. 3r-8v, 94v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2581
Title:: Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus], Ars poetica. ff. 10r-52v: Horace, Satires. ff. 53r-83v: Horace, Epistulae. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1*recto: An Italian inscription: 'Se questo libro asorta si p[re]dessi a ?dapitassi allemane di p[er]sona che no[n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2740
Title:: Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Epitome of the histories of Pompeius Trogus). [f. 84v is blank]. Decoration: Initial with floral decoration in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue, foliate tendrils extend from the initial into the upper and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1451
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3007
Title:: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Diadema monachorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-88r: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Diadema monachorum. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 88v: Latin notes, including: 'Qui mell [sic] in ore [..] gerit et me retropungere querit, huius amiciciam nolo michi sociam'; added in the 15th century. The parchment used for re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3684
Title:: Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Peter of Blois, 'Epistolarum collectio', beginning: 'Epistole magistri petri blesensis bathoniensis archidyaconi'; with a table of contents (ff. 1v-4r). The manuscript contains additiona: f. 153v: A letter in Dutch concerning a payment: '[...]nard poulmans ons goed vri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4082
Title:: Anthology of Italian Humanistic Texts
Scope & Content:: A 15th-century Italian humanistic manuscript comprising literary texts in Italian including speeches, translations and literary history. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Inscriptions with drawing of a head of a devil in brown ink (probably originally with an ownership inscription but the name has been era...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4902
Title:: St Augustine, De Civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains St Augustine's City of God. Written around 1470 by Giovanfrancesco Marzi in Florence, it was owned by the Hungarian humanists Janos Vitez and Petrus Garazda. According to unpublished notes by A. C. de la Mare, the decoration was the work of the artist known as the 'Maste...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5005
Title:: St Cyprian of Carthage, Opera
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-222r: St Cyprian of Carthage, Opera. Decoration: Partial white vine border in colours and gold with an historiated initial of Cyprian (f. 1r). Partial white vine border in colours and gold with 1 large and 1 small white vine initial (f. 7r). Partial white vine border in colou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2767
Title:: Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2531
Title:: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a glossed copy of Lucan's Pharsalia. The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 2531/1. Contents: ff. 3r-164v: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia; with marginal glosses in red frames and maniculae. The manuscript contains various later add...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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