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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2632
Title:: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina; Epodi; Carmen saeculare
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains copies of the selected works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), commonly known as Horace. The texts feature extensive marginal commentary. Contents: f. 1r: Vita Horatii (Life of Horace), imperfect, with a number of added pen trials; ff. 2r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2633
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, with added glosses. Decoration: 7 diagrams or maps in brown ink: the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2634
Title:: Titus Maccius Plautus, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains copies of a number of Latin comedies written by the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus (b. c. 254, d. 184 BC): Amphitryon, Asinaria (The One with Asses), Captivi (The Captives), Curculio (The Weevil), Casina, Cistellaria (The Casket), Epidicus and Aulularia (The Litt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2636
Title:: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: unruled parchment flyleaf with inscription. f. 2r: inscription f. 2v: Prologue to Statius’s Thebaid, begins ‘Associat profugum...,’ ends ‘…et ignes.’ ff. 3r-108v: Statius, Thebaid, begins ‘Fraternas...’. ends ‘…honores. Thebaidos xii liber explicit.’. ff. 108v-109r: Excer...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2637
Title:: Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:: Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2638
Title:: Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains copies of two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62). Contents: ff. 1r-84v: Juvenal, Satirae. ff. 85v-98v: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae. f. 85r is blank. Deco...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2640
Title:: Extracts from Boccacio and Roman poetry
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-51r, Giorgio Bevilacqua da Lazise, letter praising Jacopo Antonio Marcello’s conduct during the siege of Trieste, dated 1463.ff. 51v-55r, calendar of saints days, particularly Italian ones, including Bernardino, Zeno, Nicola de Tolentino, and Toscana:ff. 56r-57r, incipit for the story of G...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2642
Title:: Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Carmina
Scope & Content:: Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Carmina, incipit: 'Mecenas atavis edite regibus.' Decoration: 2 large initials in gold with white vine decoration in colours and foliate extensions (ff. 1r, 21r). Numerous plain initials in blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2643
Title:: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae and De bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: notes on military terms and the division of philosophy. ff. 1v-14r: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline). ff. 15r-38v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino (On the Jurguthine War). f. 14v is blank. Decoration: Large initials in silver showing its red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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