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Project / Collection Harley Collection Place Naples, Italy Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Harley MS 2675

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2675
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy); ff. 16r-44r: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 15v: an unidentified text (possibly a commentary on Sallust's history). [f. 44v is blan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1400
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2694

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2694
Title:
Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Natura rerum (On the Nature of Things), a poem concerning the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, written by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus (b. c. 99, d. c. 55 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum. Decoration: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 5221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5221
Title:
Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Julius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. The text is preceded by a Latin epitaph for a Roman woman called Claudia, composed between c. 135 and 120 BC. Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 5342

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5342
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122). Contents: ff. 1r-231v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum. [[f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume