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2751. Harley MS 2691

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2691
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of works by the Italian humanist teacher, scholar, and translator Guarino da Verona (b. 1370, d. 1460), including his Latin translation of Pseudo-Plutarch's De liberis educandis, which he dedicated to his student Angelo Corbinelli (d. 1419). Contents: ff. 1r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2752. Harley MS 2692

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2692
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Officiis (On Duties), a treatise written in 44 BC by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-155v: Cicero, De Officiis. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with all'antica elements and historiated initial at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1498
Extent:
1 volume

2753. Harley MS 2694

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2694
Title:
Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Natura rerum (On the Nature of Things), a poem concerning the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, written by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus (b. c. 99, d. c. 55 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum. Decoration: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2754. Harley MS 2695

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2695
Title:
Collection of classical and humanistic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of classical texts, including works by the Roman poets Virgil (b. 70, d. 19 BC) and Ovid (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18) and the Christian poet Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 325). It also includes a Latin translation of the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2755. Harley MS 2696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2696
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Three-sided floral border with a large white vine initial and an unidentified coat of arms in colours and gold (f. 1r). 5 smaller white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 12v, 35v, 42v, 44r, 48v). Initials in blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2756. Harley MS 2698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2698
Title:
Giles of Rome, De regimine principum; Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of De officiis (On duties), a treatise by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), featuring marginal and interlinear annotations. It is preceded by a fragment of Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum, a guide book for Christian tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1423
Extent:
1 volume

2757. Harley MS 2700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2700
Title:
Martial, Epigrams
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Epigrams by the Roman poet Martial (b. c. 41-d. c. 102). Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly working in Padua, and by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518). The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 volume

2758. Harley MS 2700/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2700/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Harley MS 2700
Scope & Content:
Detached Harleian red leather binding, tooled in gold, with marbled endpapers and four flyleaves (two at the beginning and the end). The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 2700 (a copy of Martial's Epigrams) and is now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Former binding of Harley MS 2700

2759. Harley MS 2701

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2701
Title:
Virgil, Bucolica; Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneis; Appendix
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added inscription 'G[irolamo?] Baruffaldi' ( f. 1), perhaps G[irolamo?] Baruffaldi (b. 1675, d. 1755) [of Ferrara?]. f. 1v: A pastedown includes an added inscription in Humphrey Wanley's hand, 'Hic codex olim fuit Aldi Manutij', and 'Andrea Haii Venetia 1722'. ff. 2r-19v: Vir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:
1 volume

2760. Harley MS 2702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2702
Title:
Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De re rustica, a work on agriculture by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (b. 116 BC, d. 27 BC). Contents: ff. 2r-245r: Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica (On agriculture). [ff. 1v and 245v are blank]. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours and gold, depi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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