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2491. Harley MS 2472

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2472
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid, including the Letter of Lentulus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-141r: Virgil, Aeneid; with a collection of texts relating to Roman history, including the Letter of Lentulus (ff. 37v-38r). Ending with a colophon: 'Scriptor qui libri post mortem sit paradisi incola sed sospes mundi dum manserit hospes'. f. 141v: 3 lines from the Aeneid: 'Tan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2492. Harley MS 2473

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2473
Title:
Publius Virgilius Maro, Aeneid, with marginal gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A genealogy of Roman gods, beginning with 'Demorgorgon'. f. 4v: Names of rivers ('Nomina fluminorum'). f. 5r: Commentary on the Aneid. ff. 5v-168r: Publius Virgilius Maro, Aeneid, with marginal gloss; ending with the colophon: 'Explicit liber duodecimus Eneydos Maroni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2493. 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

2494. Harley MS 2475

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2475
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments; Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino; Cicero, Orationes; Vegetius, De re militari
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works by Classical authors, including Cicero, Sallust, Vegetius, and the playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), commonly known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Petrarch, Vita Terentii (Life of Terence), imperfect at the begin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2495. Harley MS 2476

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2476
Title:
T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes eight commedies by T. Maccius Plautus, with marginal glosses: ff. 1r-21r: Amphitryon, rubric: 'Plauti poete comici clasissimi Prima comedia Amphytrio incipit Argumentum', incipit: 'In faciem vorsus Amphitrionis.' ff. 21r-36v: Ansinaria, rubric: 'Plauti comici comedia se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2496. Harley MS 2479

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2479
Title:
Zonus [Florentinus], In Lucannum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-390v: Zonus [Florentinus], In Lucannum (A commentary on Lucan's works), beginning: 'Exortum est in tenebris', ending: 'Explicitur comentum et expositio Zoni Florentini super toto Lucano plenissime declarando'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2497. Harley MS 2481

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2481
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-275v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Marginal drawing in brown ink of a crowned woman (Andromache, wife of Hector) with her hands raised and a crowd of bystanders (f. 147v). 1 large red initial with brown penwork decoration and 1 brown initial with red penwork...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1401
Extent:
1 volume

2498. 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

2499. 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

2500. Harley MS 2484

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2484
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-126v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae, with argumenta: Hercules furens (ff. 1r-17v), Thyestes (ff. 17v-31v), Oedipus (ff. 31v-45r), Phaedra (ff. 45r-61v), Phoenissae (ff. 61v-69v), Troades (ff. 69v-84v), Medea (ff. 84v-97v), Agamemnon (ff. 97v-110r), Octavia (ff. 110r-132v),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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