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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2755
Title:: Virgil, Aeneid, Bucolica, and Georgica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-180r: Virgil, Aeneid; ff. 181r-195v: Virgil, Bucolica (Bucolics); ff. 196r-234r: Virgil, Georgica (Georgics). [f. 234v is blank]. Decoration: 1 large initial in gold on a panel with white vine scrolls extending into the margins, and a partial decorated border with white...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2756
Title:: Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources. Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae. Decoration: 19 larg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2757
Title:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Historiae Alexandri Magni (Histories of Alexander the Great) by the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus (fl. 1st century). Contents: ff. 1r-180v: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni. Decoration: 1 white vine lower border and wreath en...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1450-c. 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2758
Title:: Ovid, Heroides
Scope & Content:: This 14th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Heroides (The Heroines), a collection of 15 epistolary poems by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Ovid, Heroides. Decoration: Partial foliate border in colours and gol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2759
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-217v: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with marginal and interlinear gloss, and, at the end of each book, the list of rubrics of the following book. f. 219: A a former pastedown. Decoration: Historiated initial in colours and gold of Valerius Maximus standing ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2760
Title:: Vitruvius, De architectura
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of De architectura (On architecture), a treatise by the Roman author and architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (b. c. 80–70 BC, d. after c. 15 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Vitruvius, De architectura. f. 77v is blank. Decoration: A diagram of a wind rose in the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2761
Title:: Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the three major works of the Roman poet Virgil (b. 70 BC, d. 19 BC): Bucolica (Bucolics), Georgica (Georgics), and Aeneid. The manuscript has been attributed to the Italian scribe Giovanfrancesco Marzi of San Gimignano (b. 1440, d. after 1494). Contents: ff. 1r-35r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2763
Title:: Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2764
Title:: Tacitus, Annales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-168: Tacitus, Annales. The gold initial 'I'(n) on f. 1 is an addition, cut from another manuscript and pasted into the original white vine border. Originally, the sentence would have read: 'Nam Valerium Asiaticum, bis consulem, fuisse quondam adulterum ejus credidit…' (Tacitus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1452
Extent:: 1 volume

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