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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2667, ff 72r-147r
Title:: Peter Ceffons, Centiloquium and other texts and letters
Scope & Content:: ff. 71r-123v: Peter Ceffons (Petrus de Ceffons), Centiloquium preceded by a table of contents, rubric: 'Incipiunt capitula supra librum centiloquii petri clarevallis' (ff. 71r-71v); and the Epistola Luciferi ad cleros, incipit: 'Lucifer princeps tenebrarum tristicia profunda regens' (ff. 72r-72v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 76 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2667, ff 147r-149r
Title:: Iohannes presbyter (‘Prester John’), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum
Scope & Content:: Iohannes presbyter (‘Prester John’), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum, incipit: 'Iohannes presbiter potentia et virtute'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 3 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2667, ff 149r-154r
Title:: Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
Scope & Content:: The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, rubric (f. 149r): 'Ego Iacobus filius Ioseph in timore dei conversans ... Incipit Historia sancte Marie et Joseph', incipit: 'Erat vir in Israel nomine Joachim'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2667, ff 154r-161r
Title:: Gospel of Nicodemus
Scope & Content:: Gospel of Nicodemus, rubric: 'Incipiunt gesta salvatoris domini nostri Ihesu Christi que invenit Theodosius imperator in Iherusalem', incipit: 'Factum est in anno xix imperii tiberii cesaris'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2667, ff 161r-166v)
Title:: Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae
Scope & Content:: Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae, attributed here to Alanus [ab Insula (Alain de Lille)], rubric: 'Incipit liber primus de arte fidei catholice agens de una omnium causa id est de uno deo eodemque trino triginta continens propositiones. alanus; incipit (prologue): 'Huius rem nominis de i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2668
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters: Medicine and Surgery: Sermons: Composite collection of humanistic letters and orations, medical treatises and sermons: 15th cent., 1st half: Lat. and Enm: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2669
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1-204v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. f. 205 is a medieval parchment flyleaf. Copious notes in an early-modern hand. Decoration: 10 large decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 24v, 44r, 55v, 78r, 96v, 117r, 135r, 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2670
Title:: Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2672
Title:: Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:: Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8, incipit: '[F]acturus ne sim operae pretium si a primordio'. Decoration: Plain initials in dark brown ink (f. 51r), outlined initials (ff. 108r, 151r), or spaces left for initials at the beginning of books (ff. 1r, 26v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2673
Title:: Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Ovid, Metamorphoses (ending imperfectly at Book 15, line 411, 'Id quoque quod ventis animal nutritur et aura', due to loss of leaves). Decoration: Large initial in colours with a putto and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a partial border (f. 1r). L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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