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2511. Harley MS 2500

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500
Title:
A compilation of historical texts, including Orosius, Historia adversus paganos
Scope & Content:
A compilation of historical texts preceded by a table of contents added by a 15th-century hand (f. 1* recto). The entry for Pseudo-Turpinus, the last item on the list, was added by a later, 16th-century hand, and suggests a later inclusion of this item in the volume. ff. 1r-28v: L. Annaeus Flor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2512. Harley MS 2500, ff 1r-28v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500, ff 1r-28v
Title:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio, incipit: 'Populus romanus a rege Romulo in Cesarem Augustum septingentos per annos tantum operum pace belloque gessit'. Space left for a rubric. Decoration: Large initial 'P' in blue with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of the text. Initial in r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
28 folios.

2513. Harley MS 2500, ff 29r-49v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500, ff 29r-49v
Title:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos
Scope & Content:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos, rubric: 'Pauli horosii presbiteri historiarum de hormesta mundi adversus paganos liber septimus incipit', incipit: ‘Sufficientia ut arbitor documenta collecta sunt'. Decoration: Large initial 'S' in blue with red pen-flourishing with an extension forming a p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
21 folios.

2514. Harley MS 2500, ff 50r-116r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500, ff 50r-116r
Title:
A chronicle of emperors and popes
Scope & Content:
A chronicle of emperors and popes from the creation of the world to the reign of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (b. 1122, d. 1190); preceded by a table of contents, rubric: 'Tabula historiarum sub cronicis et cathalogo omnium regum et pontificum' (ff. 50r-55v); rubric: 'Incipit liber historiarum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
67 folios.

2515. Harley MS 2500, ff 117r-129v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500, ff 117r-129v
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, De infelicitate principum
Scope & Content:
Poggio Bracciolini, De infelicitate principum, title: 'Pogii florentini oratoris eloquentissimi ac secretarii apostolici de infelicitate principum libellus', incipit: 'Cum ex mea consuetudine quaprimum estate pontifex Eugenius'. Decoration: Space left for initials.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
18 folios.

2516. Harley MS 2500, ff 129v-138r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500, ff 129v-138r
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, De acerbitate fortunae
Scope & Content:
Poggio Bracciolini, De acerbitate fortunae with a preface, title: 'Eiusdem Pogii de acerbitate fortune prohemium feliciter incipit', incipit (preface): 'Multa quondam pace ac bello preclara ante ninum assyriorum regem', incipit (text): 'Nuper cum pontifex Martinus'. Decoration: Space left for i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
10 folios.

2517. Harley MS 2500, ff 139r-155r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2500, ff 139r-155r
Title:
Pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi, title: 'Tractatus turpini remensis archiepiscopi de bello hyspanico missa sancti iacobi apostoli a karolo magno imperatore romanorum triumphaliter confecto', incipit: 'Gloriosissimus apostolus christi iacobus'. Decoration: Initials in red. Capi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
17 folios.

2518. Harley MS 2501

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2501
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Publius Virgilius Maro [Virgil], Aeneid. The manuscript contains numerous additions: some parts are heavily annotated, or feature minor annotations and pen-trials, in a cursive 15th-century hand and later hands. Decoration: Large initial in red with brown penwork deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1466
Extent:
1 volume

2519. Harley MS 2502

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2502
Title:
Virgil, Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneid (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-13r: Publius Vergilius Maro (b. 70, d. 19 BC), also known as Virgil, Eclogues (Bucolics). ff. 13r-46r: Virgil, Georgica (Georgics). ff. 47-136: Virgil, Aeneid (excerpts), with an excerpt of the ‘Epitome Illiados Homeri’ that elsewhere has been spuriously attributed to Pind...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:

1 volume

2520. Harley MS 2504

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2504
Title:
Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152r: Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum. ff. 153r-182r: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 9 smaller blue and red puzzle initials with red pen-flourishin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

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