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2791. Harley MS 2728

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2728
Title:
M. Annaeus Lucanus, De Bello Civili with scholia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-152r: M. Annaeus Lucanus, De Bello Civili with scholia including the titulus 'lucanus debello'. The first 5 lines of Book 1 are written twice on ff. 1v and 2r. [ff. 1r, 152v are blank]. Decoration: Several large initials with interlace and foliate decoration in red, possibi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

2792. Harley MS 2729

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2729
Title:
Frontinus, Strategemata, Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Julius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. It also contains Books 1-10 of the Historia Romana (History of Rome) by Paul the Deacon (b. c. 720, d. 799). This wo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2793. Harley MS 2732

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2732
Title:
Commentaries on Horace
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: ownership inscription. ff. 1v-23r: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Carmina (Odes). ff. 23r-27v: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Epodae (Epodes). ff. 28r-v: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Carmen Saeculare (Secular Song). ff. 28r-37v: Anonymous commentary on Horace's Ars ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2794. Harley MS 2733

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2733
Title:
Cicero, De Oratore and De Claris Oratoribus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Cicero, De Oratore (On Oratory); ff. 60r-138r: Cicero, De Claris Oratoribus (On Famous Orators). [f. 138v is blank]. Decoration: 1 white vine partial border in colours and gold with flowers, a winged putto, birds, a gem, and 2 compartments with rabbits, combined w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1470-c. 1480
Extent:
1 volume

2795. Harley MS 2735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2735
Title:
Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:
The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2796. Harley MS 2736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2736
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s De oratore, copied by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 800, d. 863) around 836, according to Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930). Lupus produced this manuscript perhaps from Eginhard's exemplar (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930)). This volume als...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2797. Harley MS 2737

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2737
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Fasti, and calendar
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-103r, Ovid, Metamorphoses, imperfect, with partial gloss. ff. 104r-111v, Ovid, Fasti 1.1-2,156, with partial gloss. ff. 111v-115v, Ovid, Fasti 6.365-812, with partial gloss. ff. 116r-117r, calendar of Roman festivals for March to June. f. 117r-v, notes on Ovid. Decoration: Large in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1175 - c 1250
Extent:
1 volume

2798. Harley MS 2738

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2738
Title:
Ovid, Fasti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: short texts on logic. ff. 2r-48v: Ovid, Fasti, glossed, imperfect, lacking parts of bks 3 and 4 (3.577-4.416, possibly eight leaves). ff. 49r-v: short texts on logic. Decoration: Several large initials in red and blue with pen flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2799. Harley MS 2739

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2739
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium, glossed
Scope & Content:
A glossed copy of one of the most popular rhetorical manuals of the Middle Ages, the Rhetorica ad Herennium attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero. Contents: f. 1* paper flyleaf onto which is pasted a small piece of paper, with an inscription in a modern cursive hand. ff. 1r-43r: Pseudo-Cicero, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2800. Harley MS 2740

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2740
Title:
Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-84r: Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Epitome of the histories of Pompeius Trogus). [f. 84v is blank]. Decoration: Initial with floral decoration in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue, foliate tendrils extend from the initial into the upper and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1451
Extent:
1 volume

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