This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
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-297v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae (Attic Nights). [ff. 2...
Contents: f. 1r-2v: A former pastedown and flyleaf, with an added 15th-century table of contents and prologue. ff. 3r-196v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, with commentary. f. 197r-v was originally blank leaf with added 15th-century text. Added annotations throughout. Decoration: Large initial in co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Contents: f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'. ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ill...
This manuscript contains two works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): Orator, his last work on rhetoric, written three years before his death, and De claris oratoribus (On famous orators), a history of Roman oratory. The anonymous scribe of the manuscript was also...
Virgil (Virgilius; Vergilius; Vergil), Aeneid, fragment of Books 7, 8, 10, and 11, with rubrics in red and initials in red or black. Paraphs and chapter numbers (in upper margins) added in black.