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

1. Harley MS 2639

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2639
Title:
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De grammaticis et rhetoribus; Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two rhetorical works by Roman historians: De grammaticis et rhetoribus (On Grammarians and Rhetoricians) by Caius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122) and Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on oratory) by Publius Cornelius Tacitus (b. c. 56, d. c. 120)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1450-c. 1460 (before 1462)
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 2708

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2708
Title:
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus (To Augustus on his children and the rulers of the city of Rome), a Latin treatise on the great Roman families attributed to the general and literary patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (b. 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 3448

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3448
Title:
Fiore de virtù e de costumi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Fiore de virtù e de costumi (Flower of Virtue and of Manners), an Italian work on virtues and vices that was composed in the early 14th century. It consists of 36 chapters, each of which discusses a particular virtue or vice by drawing a comparison with an animal, cit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 4059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4059
Title:
Albius Tibullus, Elegies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the collected works of Albius Tibullus (c. 55 BC–19 BC), a Roman poet and writer of elegies. Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Tibullus, Elegies, bk I. ff. 24v-57v: Tibullus, Elegies, bk II. Vertical catchwords. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours of a winged horse (Pegasus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1485-c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 5262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5262
Title:
Henry of Settimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione (Elegy on varying fortune and the consolation of philosophy), written by the Italian poet Henricus Florintinus (fl. late 12th century), commonly known as Henry of Septimello. Contents: f. 1*v: an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume