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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2429
Title:: A German-Latvian dictionary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: A German-Latvian dictionary with example sentences, entitled: ‘Vocabularium Germanico-Curlandicum’ (f. 1r) or ‘Lellipses Wörter-Büchlein’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latvian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2430
Title:: German prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2475
Title:: Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments; Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino; Cicero, Orationes; Vegetius, De re militari
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of works by Classical authors, including Cicero, Sallust, Vegetius, and the playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), commonly known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Petrarch, Vita Terentii (Life of Terence), imperfect at the begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2489
Title:: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses; Fasti
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-201r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, with commentary. ff. 202r-202v: An incomplete Roman calendar with Roman Gods/festivals (January-June). ff. 203r-285r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Decoration: Large initial in pink and brown ink with acanthus leaves and a hybrid dra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2505
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-150r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares. ff. 150r-150v: Fabritius and Emilius, letter to Pyrrhus; ending with the colophon: 'Per manus Johannis de Westphalia'. ff. 150v-151r: Ovid, De Pulice (The Flea). ff. 151r-151v: 'Carmen illustris quondam ducis Mediolani...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2562
Title:: Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Vita Terentii. f. 1v: Argumentum fabulae Andriae. ff. 2r-277v: Terence, Comoediae; including Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timoroumenos, Hecyra, Phormio, Adelphi, and versuum distinctione; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large initials in red. Abbreviations of protagonis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1469
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2652
Title:: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2664
Title:: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-188r: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (b. c. 35, d. c. 100), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory), with running header on the top right of each verso specifying which book of the Institutio is covered, added in the 15th century. ff. 90r-91v: Replacement text for lost folios,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek and Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2670
Title:: Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2703
Title:: Ovid, Fasti, and Remedia amoris
Scope & Content:: A manuscript consisting of two parts that had been bound together by 1533 (see ‘Custodial history’). Both parts contain elegiac verse by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), and were probably written in Germany. The first part (ff. 1r-56v) dates to the 2nd half of the 12th century; the second part (ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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