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2731. Harley MS 2674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2674
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2732. Harley MS 2675

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2675
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy); ff. 16r-44r: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 15v: an unidentified text (possibly a commentary on Sallust's history). [f. 44v is blan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1400
Extent:
1 volume

2733. Harley MS 2676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2676
Title:
Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a very large white vine initial 'L'(ibros) in colours and gold at the beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465-1467
Extent:

356 folios.

2734. Harley MS 2677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2677
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold of Pliny writing in his study, and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, combined with a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1457-1458
Extent:
509 folios.

2735. Harley MS 2680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2680
Title:
Servius, Commentaries on Virgil
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-17r: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues (of Bucolica) rubric: 'INCIPIT EXPOSITIO SERVII GRAMMATICI IN BUCOLICIS VIRGILII MARONIS’, incipit: 'Bucolica ut ferunt a custodia boun.' ff. 17v-53v: Servius, Commentary on Virgil’s Georgics, rubric: 'EXPOSITIO SERVII GRAMMATICI IN LIBRIS GE...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1470
Extent:
Parchment codex

2736. Harley MS 2681

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2681
Title:
Cicero, Orationes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-305: Cicero, Orationes, copied from an edition published in Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz in 1471, according to Reeve, 'Manuscripts' (1983). Decoration: 1 half-page miniature with a man standing before an assembly, with a scribe writes down the proceedings, in the style of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1483
Extent:
1 volume

2737. Harley MS 2682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2682
Title:
Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, Laelius de amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute, various speeches (including Philippicae, Orationes in Catilinam, Pro Marcello), Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Officiis; Pseudo-Quintus Tullius Cicero, De petitione consulatus; Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Sallusti; Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola magni Alexandri ad Aristotelem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, containing mainly works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), has long been an important source for scholarship and textual criticism on Cicero’s works. It was first collated in the late-16th century by the Flemish jurist and humanist François Modius (b. 1556, d. 1597)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

2738. Harley MS 2683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2683
Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Commentarii de Bello Civili: Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino, De Bello Africano, and De Bello Hispanico.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100, d. 44 BC)'s Commentarii de Bello Gallico: his first-hand account of the Roman military campaigns in Gaul in seven books, supplemented with an eight book written by Aulus Hirtius (d. 43 BC), a legate of Caesar. The account is followed by Caesa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex.

2739. Harley MS 2684

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2684
Title:
Livy, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-213: Livy, Ab urbe condita. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold and a wreath designed for a coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1)r. 9 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 24r, 48v, 69r, 89v, 109v, 131v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2740. Harley MS 2685

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2685
Title:
Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Mythologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and 10th-century interlinear and marginal glosses. ff. 24r-35v: Fulgentius Mythographus (fl. 500), Mythologiae (Mythologies), preceded by capitula (f. 24r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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