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2471. Harley MS 2449

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2449
Title:
An office book, providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year
Scope & Content:
An office book providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year. It is not a full breviary and it appears to lack lections and music. Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A calendar with added obits (see Provenance). ff. 19v-118r: Temporale (from Easter to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2472. Harley MS 2450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2450
Title:
Breviary, Use of Le Mans
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is one of only six known surviving liturgical manuscripts than can be localised to the diocese of Le Mans (see Davis, 'Canons, Huguenots, Movie Stars, and Missionaries', p. 297, n. 2). It has suffered later damage and excision of several leaves, as well as the excision of some in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2473. Harley MS 2451

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2451
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-270v: Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina (A doctrinal compendium). Decoration: Large white vine initial in colours (f. 1r). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 31v, 41v, 47r, 49r, 61r, 65v, 68v, etc.), occasionally with reserved lines. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2474. Harley MS 2452

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2452
Title:
William of Jumièges, De Epistolaribus Modis; Alberic of Monte Cassino, Breviarium de dictamine; grammatical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: William of Jumièges, De Epistolaribus Modis, imperfect. ff. 2r-7r: Alberic of Monte Cassino, Breviarium de dictamine, imperfect. ff. 8r-9v: a grammatical treatise based on Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (sections from Book 11-12). ff. 10r-26r: a grammatical treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2475. Harley MS 2453

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2453
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-211v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Ink drawing of a hunting scene (boar hunt) drawn in the space left below the text (ff. 54v-55r). Large initials in red and/or brown ink with crowned figures and various motifs extending into the margin (ff. 2r, 23v), or made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1435
Extent:
1 volume

2476. Harley MS 2454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2454
Title:
Commentaries on T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes commentaries on eight comedies of Plautus: ff. 1r-23r: Commentary on the Amphitryon, incipit: 'Ut vos in vostris pro introductione huius comedie que inscribitur Amphitrio notandum est quod [thebis] fuit quidam princeps.' This commentary is also included in Biblioteca Ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2477. Harley MS 2455

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2455
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae; Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (fragments); Gabrio Zamorei's epitaph for Giovanni Visconti; an epitaph for Mehmed II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-86r: Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae, preceded by an accessus ad auctorem (ff. 1*r-3*v). ff. 88r-88v, 90r, 90v, 91r, 91v, 92r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (verses from Book III, 480-516 et passim). A single line has been added at the top of 90r, 91r, 91v, 92r, presu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2478. Harley MS 2456

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2456
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152v: Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with red and purple penwork decoration (the blue pigment has flaked off) (f. 1r). 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 26r). Smaller initials in blue with red penwork dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2479. Harley MS 2457

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2457
Title:
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
Scope & Content:
Contents: Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis (ff. 1r-67v). Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica (ff. 68r-78v) Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica (ff. 79r-99v), imperfect. Decoration: White vine initial in colours and gold (f. 12r). A few coloured initials in dark red. Some spaces for initials left blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2480. Harley MS 2458

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2458
Title:
Goro d'Arezzo, Commentary on Lucan's Pharsalia
Scope & Content:
A late medieval copy of an early Renaissance commentary on Lucan's famous epic, the Pharsalia by the grammarian Goro d'Arezzo, who lived at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Contents: f. 1: Inscriptions. f. 2r: Epigram in 4 lines, extracted from the work known as Disticha Catonis (IV. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1466
Extent:
1 volume

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