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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 28-43
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen paschale, fragment
Scope & Content:: Caelius Sedulius, Carmen paschale, fragment of Books 1-3, with interlinear and marginal gloss in Latin. Initials and rubrics originally in silver, now showing the red ground.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1050-1150
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 16 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 44-74
Title:: Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, fragment
Scope & Content:: Contents: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, books 1.2.2-2.15.8, Decoration: Ink diagram of a Zodiac wheel with the earth at the centre (f. 61v). Round ink diagrams of the heavens (ff. 63v, 69r) and of the earth (f. 67v). A round map of the oceans and inhabited regions of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 31 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772, ff 75-90
Title:: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires, fragment
Scope & Content:: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires, books XI.153-XIV.110, V.49-VI.103 and IX.1- XI.146 with gloss.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773
Title:: Grammatical miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of two parts of different date: ff. 1r-31v (+ the following unfoliated leaf) and ff. 32r-63v, and includes: ff. 1r-4v: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist. ff. 5r-31v: Diomedes, Artis Grammaticae Libri III. ff. 32r-60r: M. Tullius Cicero, Epist...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773, ff 1r-4v
Title:: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist
Scope & Content:: Servius Grammaticus, Latin and Greek grammatical wordlist (transliterated in Latin alphabet), incipit: 'as assanon assis'. The list of the idiomata generum type including Latin words of which the Greek equivalent is of different gender.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773, ff 5r-31v
Title:: Diomedes, Artis Grammaticae Libri III
Scope & Content:: Diomedes, Artis Grammaticae Libri III, incipit: 'Artis grammaticae auctores exordium scribendi varium diversumque sumpserunt', with a prologue, incipit: 'Incipit prologus Diomedis. Diomedes Athanasio salutem'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century
Extent:: 27 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773, ff 32r-60r
Title:: M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae
Scope & Content:: M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae in 4 books, incipit: 'Cicero salutem dicit puplio lentulo proconsuli. Ego omni officio ac potius pietate erga te ceteris'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 29 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2773, ff 60v-63v
Title:: Two satirical poems
Scope & Content:: Two satirical poems 'Johannis Diaconi versiculi de Cena Cypriani', incipit: 'Qui cupitis saltantem'; poem incipit: 'Quidam nomine Iohel rex' (ff. 60v-63v); and 'Supposicio eiusdem Iohannis ad papam', incipit: 'Ludere me libuit ludendem papa iohannes' (f. 63v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2774
Title:: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Facta et dicta memorabilia (Memorable Deeds and Sayings), a collection of short stories written by the Roman author Valerius Maximus, who was active during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37). Contents: ff. 1r-v: A list of chapters; ff. 2r-95v: Valeriu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2775
Title:: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), written by the Latin grammarian Priscianus Caesariensis (fl. 500), commonly known as Priscian. The work was used as the standard textbook for the study of Latin during the Middle Ages. The text features num...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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